Tudhope Park. — Attraction in Ontario

City of Orillia is charging $50 for parking at these public parks for non residents. It was a pretty unpleasant experience for us visiting Orillia on 15 Aug 2020. First we drove around 2 hours early morning to find out we could not get into MacRae Point park as the park was full around 830 in the morning. We were 5 families with precooked food and everything so decided to have our picnic in one of Orillia's public parks. We found out that city of Orillia is ripping people off by charging $50 per vehicle parking. We paid and then later to our surprise we could not even warm our food up as there was no cooking/warming up of food allowed on flame. So we had to gulp down our frozen food somehow.

Same time last year when we visited, we were able to do our BBQ in the same Tudhope park. Over all it was a horrible experience visiting Orillia so anyone planning to visit there as a non resident for a picnic should at least...

Fantastic park with lots of great walking trails. Be very careful as many of the cyclists are disrespectful of pedestrians. I was hit by one who shouted way to late that they were behind not sure why as the other path was clear however they prefered to cycle side by side!

Sadly, during these times of COVID safe practicing is not apparent in the washrooms. In the gents all urinals are open but dirty and zero control seems apparent.

Finally, if you are a "visitor" as opposed to a resident be very careful when you go there. There is $50 flat rate parking fee on Fridays to Monday plus bank holidays and to be honest there just isn't anything there to justify this...

We were there about 5 days ago, over the weekend. Lovely, big park with lots of trees. The lake water is clear and clean. Great pathway to walk or jog on. Lots of park benches along the pathway to sit kn and enjoy the view. Plenty of picnic tables open and available. The Gordon Lightfoot statue is in good condition. Nearby beach available to swim and play. Free public restrooms available. Plenty of parking available. Two baseball fields are there, one of them was occupied with people playing a game. Squirrels, chipmunks, swans, ducks, geese can be seen. Highly recommend this park, and a great place for a date or to bring family, or just be own your own and relax. Calm...