Camp Ahmek

Camp Ahmek

Camp Ahmek (founded in 1921) is an all boys camp located on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park. It is one of the two Taylor Statten Camps, the other being Wapomeo. The camp specializes in Canoe Tripping, but other activities include Horseback riding, swimming, canoeing, sailing, archery, rock climbing, windsurfing, drama, arts and crafts, ecology and high ropes.

The camp is owned and operated by the Taylor Statten family. Currently, the camp attracts four hundred campers aged 7-16 per summer. All campers participate in Canoe Trips of lengths ranging from 2 to 50 consecutive days.

As well as its notable alumni former Canadian Prime-Minister Pierre Eliott Trudeau and his sons, the camp is renown for the worlds largest fleet of Cedar strip canoes. Also it has the worlds largest pair of cedar strip canvas war canoes.

Ahmek has a wide varity of conoe trips

Park

The Taylor Statten Camps (Camp Ahmek for Boys and Wapomeo for Girls) is found on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park. Algonquin Park is found in Central Ontario, 2 hours North of Toronto (via Hwy 400) and 40 minutes (via Hwy 60) east of 2010 G8 Summit host community Huntsville. Algonquin has a rich history offering hundreds of kilometers of Canoe Tripping, Hiking, and Mountain Bicycling routes.

Outpost

You get bused out to Temagami where you experience canoe tripping in the wolf lake district home to larger lakes and shorter portages.

Kipiwa

YOu trip majoritily in Quebec where you can go to HUnters point where you can see the famous male model/professional football player Nico Vits signature

References

External links

* [http://www.taylorstattencamps.com Official web site]


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