Okay – so Nipigon doesn’t boast the highest altitude or latitude. What it CAN boast, however, is being the northernmost point along the circle tour of Lake Superior. To me, Lake Superior is an aqueous Everest, and Nipigon is its climax.

Nipigon is a sleepy hamlet studded with interesting cliffs. The only road of any consequence in the town is the one following the circle tour; it is not possible to access points in northern Ontario by road beyond Lake Nipigon.

Lake Superior isn’t big and wide like the ocean at Nipigon, but one can view its lovely bays and inlets nearby.

Stopping for food and fuel at the local diner/gas station, I felt VERY conspicuously foreign; although I have been through many small ‘everyone knows everyone’ towns, this feeling was amplified in Nipigon. It is VERY remote.