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Shortcut between Killarney area and Manitoulin Island

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Shortcut between Killarney area and Manitoulin Island

It seems the only way to drive from the Killarney area to Manitoulin Island is to make the 3.5 hour trip all the way back through Sudbury, as shown here:

http://tinyurl.com/42vvx9e



That's a real bummer though.

Are there any shortcuts? Like dirt roads, logging roads, non-numbered roads, unofficial roads, fields/forests you can drive through, etc. Anything to knock some time of that drive?

I looked along Highway 637 (that links the town of Killarney to the Trans-Canada Highway) and there are a few side-roads that branch off of it, but they don't go far enough north to connect with any of the side-roads that branch off southwards from the Sudbury area.

Any ideas? It's such a shame having to drive almost four hours when your destination is less than 50km away.
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Jan 16, 2008
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Nope, unless you want to use a boat. There are only 2 ways to take a car onto the Island. The swing bridge via Little Current, or the ferry at Tobermory.
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You can snowmobile across in no time in the winter, but that area has always amazed me how two places so close together can be so far by road. Killarney Provincial Park occupies a lot of the territory where you would hope to find back roads but it is pristine and undeveloped.

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