Petroglyphs Provincial Park

A Day Use Park Protecting The Largest Known Concentration Of Indigenous Rock Carvings In Canada, More Than 900 Images Carved In A White Marble Outcrop, Covered By A Protective Building, With An Interpretive Centre And Forest Trails. A Sacred Site For Anishinaabe People, Visited With Care And Respect · Woodview, Ontario

Petroglyphs Provincial Park, a quiet day-use park of maple and pine, protects Kinomagewapkong, an Anishinaabe name often given in English as the Teaching Rocks, a white marble outcrop in the forest near Woodview, about 60 km north of Peterborough (confirm spelling, meaning and distance). More than 900 images are carved into the stone, the largest known concentration of Indigenous rock carvings in Canada, and for Anishinaabe people it remains a sacred place, so the park asks visitors to come as respectful guests and not as sightseers. A protective glass building covers the carvings to slow weathering, and the visitor centre, forest paths and staff help explain what is known. Visitors look without touching and make no rubbings or tracings. The park is for day use only, with no camping, set among maple, pine and cedar on the southern edge of the Canadian Shield. A vehicle permit is needed for entry (confirm all prices and dates).

Petroglyphs Provincial Park, north of Peterborough near Woodview on Northey's Bay Road, about 60 km north of Peterborough; coordinates approximate, Woodview, Ontario, Canada

Petroglyphs is a seasonal day-use park, with the gate, visitor centre and protective building generally open from about mid May to early October, and closed or unstaffed in winter, so confirm dates with Ontario Parks before the drive from Peterborough. The carvings are viewed through or inside the protective building during staffed hours only (confirm). Allow time before closing, since the last entry can be earlier than the gate time. The access road is rural and may be rough in spring thaw, and there is no overnight stay on site.

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