Campsite 211 on North Rathbun Lake sits in the farthest corner of the lake, making it one of the more remote destinations in Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park, Ontario.

Reaching it requires paddling the length of Anstruther Lake followed by two significant portages — roughly 163 metres up to Rathbun Lake and another 162 metres down into North Rathbun — a journey that can take around 3. 5 hours from the put-in.

The effort pays off in genuine quiet. Once paddlers cross into North Rathbun, the noise of motorized watercraft on the lower lakes fades away, replaced by the stillness typical of deeper backcountry travel in the Kawarthas.