Lake on the Mountain Provincial Park

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Lake on the Mountain Provincial Park
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Lake on the Mountain with the Provincial Park on the far right opposite shore
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Location in Southern Ontario
Location Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Nearest city Belleville, Ontario
Coordinates 44°02′02″N77°03′32″W / 44.034°N 77.059°W / 44.034; -77.059
Area104 ha (260 acres)
Established1957 [1]
Visitors13,088(in 2022 [2] )
Governing body Ontario Parks
Website www.ontarioparks.ca/park/lakeonthemountain
Lake on the Mountain Provincial Park

Lake on the Mountain Provincial Park is a provincial park located in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. The park has an area of 104 hectares. Other than a viewing platform, parking area, and an illustrated sign explaining the physical structure of the eponymous lake, there are no facilities in the park.

The freshwater lake around which the park is based is located nearly 62 metres (203 ft) above the Bay of Quinte from which it is separated by a narrow strip of land ending in a cliff. Often thought to have no visible source of water, it is actually fed by at least two small streams from the surrounding higher land, predominantly from the west though another enters near the southeast corner. The southeast supply is more of a seasonal spring runoff and by summer is sometimes completely dry. There is also a significant area of swamp to the southwest which would act as a reservoir for water that would eventually flow into the lake. Drainage of the lake occurs on the east side where a small stream flows down the cliff into Lake Ontario's Bay of Quinte. It is believed to be a collapsed doline (a type of sinkhole). It was believed to be bottomless by early settlers. The depth of the lake was found to be 30 meters (98 feet) by a survey in 1964. [3]

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References

  1. "Lake On The Mountain Provincial Park - Recreation". Protected Planet. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014.
  2. Parks, Ontario. "Ontario_Parks-Visitation-Statistics 2022 - Ministries". data.ontario.ca. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
  3. Terasmae, J.; Mirynech, E. (1964). "POSTGLACIAL CHRONOLOGY AND THE ORIGIN OF DEEP LAKE BASINS IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, ONTARIO" (PDF). Pub. No. 11, Great Lakes Research Division, the University of Michigan.