Caribou Lake is the gateway to the Wabakimi Provincial Park -- one of the World's largest Boreal Forest reserves and wilderness canoeing areas. (A Boreal Forest is a broad belt of coniferous forest that stretches between the mostly treeless arctic/subarctic region to the north and the mixed hardwood and coniferous transition forest of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest region to the south.)

The park is almost 2.3 million acres in size and the 2nd largest park in the Ontario Parks System. Website:www.wabakimi.on.ca/wabakimi/index.htm

Armstrong is 9 miles south on Caribou Lake Road. It's a small town but has the staples you may need, food, fuel, phones, laundromat, health clinic, police station, 2 restaurants and a post office. It also has a unmanned airpstrip in case you want to fly in.