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Quetico Provincial ParkQuetico Provincial Park is a large wilderness park in western Ontario, Canada, renowned for its excellent canoeing. This 4,760-square km (1.18 million acre) park shares its southern border with Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. These two large wilderness parks are often collectively referred to as simply the Boundary Waters. The park includes over 2,000 wilderness campsites spread throughout more than 600 lakes. Canoeists can only enter the Quetico via six access points, two of which are accessible by road. Quetico Provincial Park was created in 1913, although road access wasn't built until 1954. The park has been completely protected from logging since 1971. Motor vehicles, including boats, were banned in the Quetico in 1979, with the exception of the Lac La Croix Guides Association, part of the Lac La Croix First Nation, which is allowed to operate power boats with engine no more than 10 horsepower on Quetico, Beaverhouse, Wolseley, Tanner, Minn and McAree Lakes. The official plan (Agreement of Coexistence) is to phase out motorized guiding activities by the Lac La Croix First Nation in Quetico Provincial Park through simple attrition by the year 2015. Other nearby wilderness parks include Ontario's La Verendrye Provincial Park and Minnesota's Voyageurs National Park. External links
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