Bonnechere Provincial Park: What to Know Before You Book

If you're trying to decide which campground to book at Bonnechere Provincial Park, there's nothing to decide: our data shows exactly one campground here, and its roughly 128 sites account for the park's entire site count. The real planning questions for Bonnechere aren't "which campground" but "is this the right park for my trip" and "what do I need to confirm before I pick a site."

Here's what we can confirm, what we can't, and where to look for the rest.

What our data confirms

Bonnechere Provincial Park sits at 4024 Round Lake Rd in Killaloe, Ontario — in the Ottawa Valley stretch of Renfrew County, east of Algonquin Provincial Park's boundary. The park lists about 128 total sites, and the single campground on our park page — which carries the same name as the park — accounts for all of them. Unlike some parks where the campground total doesn't quite match the park total, Bonnechere's numbers line up cleanly: one campground, one site count, no gap to explain.

That simplicity is useful for planning, but it also means there's no second loop or overflow campground to fall back on if your first-choice site or date doesn't come up. Everything riding on this trip is riding on one campground.

What to check before you book

With a single campground and no competing loops to weigh against each other, the real work is picking the right individual site. A few things worth doing before your booking window opens:

• Use the reservation map's filters. Electrical vs. non-electrical, pull-through vs. back-in, distance to the comfort station — none of that is in our data, and the official booking map shows it site by site.
• Check the satellite view for tree cover and neighbours. Our guide to reading a campsite before you book walks through what to look for on the map: shade, privacy, and how close you'll be to the comfort station and the main road through the loop.
• Confirm current amenities directly with Ontario Parks. Things like a beach, trails, or a boat launch may or may not be set up the way you expect this season; the official Bonnechere page is the place to verify before you commit to a date.
• Have backup site numbers ready. A smaller, single campground can still fill up fast on a long weekend even without several loops splitting demand — don't assume a lower total site count means an easier booking window.

When to book

Ontario Parks releases reservations five months ahead of your arrival date, at 7 a.m. Eastern, on reservations.ontarioparks.ca. Our reservation dates guide has the day-by-day schedule for 2027's long weekends, and our 7 a.m. booking playbook covers what to have ready before the window opens. Because Bonnechere's roughly 128 sites are all in one campground, popular summer weekends can move quickly once the window opens — don't wait to book if your dates matter to you.

If your weekend does sell out, it isn't necessarily final. Our guide to landing a cancelled site covers setting a Notify Me alert and timing your checks around the cancellation deadline, and that approach works just as well at a single-campground park like Bonnechere as at a bigger one.

If Bonnechere doesn't have what you need

If your trip depends on something we can't confirm at Bonnechere — electrical hookups, a specific amenity, or roofed accommodation — it's worth checking before you book rather than after. We cover a similar single-campground situation in our Murphys Point guide, which walks through the same "one campground, one decision" logic if you want a second example of how to approach it. For a park with more campgrounds and loops to choose between, something like Algonquin Provincial Park may be a better fit if you specifically want options to compare.

The bottom line

Bonnechere keeps the campground decision simple: there's one campground, and its roughly 128 sites are the whole park. Spend your planning time on the things our data can't tell you — electrical availability, site privacy, and current amenities — on the official Ontario Parks page and reservation map, then book early if you want a summer weekend in the Ottawa Valley.

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Questions

Does Bonnechere Provincial Park have more than one campground?

No. Our data shows one campground, sharing the park's name, with roughly 128 sites — which is the park's full site count. There's no campground-to-campground comparison to make here.

Are there electrical sites at Bonnechere?

We don't have that split confirmed in our data. Use the electrical filter on the Ontario Parks reservation map before you book so you can see exactly which sites have power.

Where is Bonnechere Provincial Park?

It's at 4024 Round Lake Rd in Killaloe, Ontario — the Ottawa Valley area of Renfrew County, east of Algonquin Provincial Park.

When should I book a site at Bonnechere?

Ontario Parks opens reservations five months ahead of your arrival date, at 7 a.m. Eastern. Book as early as your window allows if you want a specific site on a summer weekend.