Petroglyphs Provincial Park

Petroglyphs Provincial Park

Petroglyphs Provincial Park borders the Peterborough Crown Game Reserve. Birds such as Gray Jays, Wild Turkeys, Ruffed Grouse and various types of hawks are visible in the summer.

Petroglyphs – Visitor Centre – Meromictic Lake – Camping – Birding – Hiking
This park gets its name from the largest known concentration of Indigenous rock carvings (petroglyphs) in Canada, depicting turtles, snakes, birds, humans and more; this sacred site is known as “The Teaching Rocks”. Petroglyphs Provincial Park borders the Peterborough Crown Game Reserve. Birds such as Gray Jays, Wild Turkeys, Ruffed Grouse and various types of hawks are visible in the summer. Visit bright blue/green McGinnis Lake – one of only a handful of meromictic (layers of water that don’t intermix) lakes in Canada. In the Learning Place Visitor Centre you will discover the traditions of the Ojibway (Nishnaabe) people through the teachings of the medicine wheel