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The Moon River is a traditional canoe route passing through provincial conservation reserves named Moon River and Lower Moon River. Lower Moon River
Conservation Reserve is also accessible by power boat from Georgian Bay to the base of Moon Falls. Crown land camping occurs at sites along the river,
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In Spring of 2013 Muskoka Lakes region experienced a flood that at the time was touted as “the worst flooding in 100 years”. The flood of 2019 measurably exceeded the levels of the 2013 flooding.
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The river begins at the Bala Falls in the community of Bala, where those falls drain Lake
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