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Steel River Provincial Park

49.193° N, 86.8464° W

Steel River Provincial Park, Ontario. 49.193° N, 86.8464° W

Provincial park, 112 km². Scale bar on the map.

borealbound.ca/parks/on/steel-river-provincial-park/, compiled October 9, 2026

  • Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
  • Provincial Park and Conservation Reserve Regulated, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
  • HydroLAKES v1.0, Messager et al. 2016 / WWF HydroSHEDS. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Canadian Geographical Names Database, Natural Resources Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
  • Census boundaries and population, 2021, Statistics Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.
  • City page weather forecasts and alerts, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence).

Steel River Provincial Park is a 112 km² provincial park 17 km north of Terrace Bay, in Ontario. It was established in 1989.

23 named lakes lie in or along the park; the largest is Steel Lake (15.6 km²).

Area
112 km²
Established
1989
Named lakes
23

Conditions today

3.2 °C

Wind NNW 2 km/h

Observed at Terrace Bay, as of 4:00 a.m. EDT

Tonight: Partly cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Wind north 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Low minus 1.

Weather: Terrace Bay (local forecast), as of 4:02 a.m. EDT

Sun and moon

Civil dawn
7:27 a.m.
Sunrise
7:59 a.m.
Sunset
7:09 p.m.
Civil dusk
7:40 p.m.
Moonrise
6:51 a.m.
Moonset
6:27 p.m.
Moon
Waning crescent, 1% lit

In the park

The 12 largest of 23 named lakes, ranked by area.

FeatureAreaMax depth
1Steel Lake15.6 km²
2Santoy Lake9.98 km²91.4 m
3Cairngorm Lake7.07 km²61 m
4Evonymus Lake2.56 km²
5Grehan Lake2.37 km²
6Kawabatongog Lake1.86 km²
7Caragana Lake1.68 km²
8Eaglecrest Lake1.21 km²
9Diablo Lake1.14 km²
10Larry Lake1.11 km²
11Twomey Lake0.98 km²
12Punchard Lake0.81 km²

Rivers

Official names from the Canadian Geographical Names Database; each name opens its location on OpenStreetMap.

Official record

Designation
Provincial park
Park class
Waterway
IUCN category
II, National parkInternational IUCN class, not a legal designation
Status
Non-operating park (no staff or visitor facilities)
Regulated
1989
Managed by
Ontario Parks
Official website
ontarioparks.ca