In a previous post, I discussed road traffic noise at campgrounds. Few readers commented on train noise as worse than road traffic buzz. Here I estimate rail noise at 62 Canadian campgrounds. In Ontario, the pattern emerges in two groups:

Lake Superior campgrounds — Neys, Rainbow Falls, Kakabeka Falls — sit on the transcontinental line along the north shore. Fewer trains, but very close, and Neys at 68 metres is the closest camping to an active railway anywhere in the Ontario system.

Windsor–Toronto–Montreal corridor campgrounds — Darlington, Bronte Creek, Komoka — are the opposite: further from the track, but on the busiest passenger and freight corridor in the country, where 40 to 46 trains a day is normal. Darlington's Hilltop campground manages both problems at once: 324 metres from a line carrying 40 trains daily, and 400 metres from Highway 401. It is the noisiest combination in the province by our estimates.

See my full blog here for more data and tips on getting a quiet campsite for your next trip: campaid.ca/blog/train-noise-canadian-campgrounds/

Does anyone know of a company that rents canoes and kayaks for backcountry camping in the Georgian Bay Islands National Park area and has a drop-off service? We are hoping to leave from Honey Harbour at the end of August.

I have tried Swift and that did not work out. They do not deliver on the weekend I need them to.