Bissett Road Ranger Cabin

Bissett Road Ranger Cabin is a one-room log cabin built in 1922, set among mature white pines beside a beaver meadow about a kilometre inside Algonquin’s boundary. This is a reserved overnight base, not a roadside stop: you need to book it, and the last kilometre is on foot from Bissett Creek Road Access Point. The approach includes 18 kilometres of gravel road south from Highway 17.

There’s a wood stove, bunks without mattresses, a table and chairs, a wash basin and an outside enclosed toilet. There’s no running water, electricity or indoor bathroom, and no dishes, pots or pans. Bring your own bedding, food, drinking water and cookware; this is a simple backcountry stay.

The cabin is near Bissett Creek Road Access Point, but you can’t drive to its door. Plan for the one-kilometre walk from the park boundary. Bissett Creek Road is a forest access road, and the park warns that logging trucks make weekday noise along it.

The district forester built the cabin in 1922 as a moose-hunting camp. When the park boundary was surveyed three years later, the cabin turned out to be inside the park, while the hunting party continued to use it as a base outside the boundary under a special permit. Rangers later called it Twelve Mile Cabin for its distance from Bissett Creek. They used it on patrol until the late 1950s; its roof was re-sheeted with lumber and aluminum in 1951.

The cabin sits on a western-facing beaver meadow among mature white pines, not on the water. The park describes it as a possible base for wildlife viewing. If you want a lakefront cabin or a quick roadside history stop, choose somewhere else; this one is about a rustic overnight in the woods.