In winter the Haliburton Highlands become a playground for snow based activities. Cross country skiing, skating, and ice fishing are available directly at the Resort while dog sledding, downhill skiing, snowmobiling and snowshoeing are nearby the resort.
CROSS COUNTRY SKIING
Ogopogo has walking access to the Twin Lakes Ski Trails, part of the Haliburton Nordic Trail & Ski Club Association. This is a 10 km system of easy to moderate groomed classic skiing. The resort is also within 20 minutes of many of the other Haliburton Nordic Trails including the Leslie Frost Centre and Glebe Park. Ogopogo has ski equipment in limited quantity for guests.
ICE SKATING
Skate on beautiful Mountain Lake. The resort maintains a large rink on the Lake – great for a family outing or a pickup game of hockey. Try a romantic skate under the stars – they light the rink at night.
ICE FISHING
Mountain Lake offers great ice fishing featuring Haliburton Gold Lake Trout, Pickerel and Whitefish. It is also known to catch Burbot (Ling) in the evenings. Some of the best locations to fish on the entire lake are located just 300 ft off shore from Ogopogo Resort with easy access back and forth to your cottage from a Heated Ice Fishing Huts. The Ice Fishing Hut Rentals include your bait and the propane for the heated hut. The resort also rents our ice fishing huts for day rentals at a rate of $55.00 /person/day.
DOWNHILL SKIING
Nearby Sir Sam’s Ski and Bike offers excellent downhill skiing without lineups. Ogopogo Resort offers “Learn to Ski or Snowboard” package discounts.
DOG SLEDDING
Winterdance is an Ontario dogsledding tour company that operates out of the Haliburton Highlands, Canada, alongside Algonquin park, and is owned and operated by husband and wife team Hank DeBruin and Tanya McCready-DeBruin, with help from their 4 dogsledding children, Logan, Dustyn, Michaela and Jessica.
Discover the thrill of dogsledding by learning to drive a dogteam! Explore Haliburton’s breathtaking wilderness dog sledding in magical silence for a 2 hour, 1/2 day, full day, moonlite or multi-day dog sledding trip.
SNOWMOBILING
From Ogopogo, access over 600 km of groomed trails in Haliburton County with links to the rest of the province. Lake travel is a must to get to trails.
SNOWSHOEING
A fast growing sport in Haliburton County. The Leslie Frost Centre trails, Moose Woods Recreational trails and Snowdon Park Preserve are all within 20 minutes of Ogopogo. Also, Twin Lakes Cross Country Trails located just across the road now offers 2 kms of snow shoe trails and the resort provides free access to snow shoes.