Reviews of Trent-Severn Waterway, Lock 35 - Rosedale (Zoo)

Jeanine BB

Nice place to walk in the winter time away from the ATV's and snowmobiles.

Catherine Burke

To rate the docking wall at Lock 35 in Rosedale is a little hard as it is a matter of personal preference: do you want to be completely secluded in wooded surroundings, or do you prefer to be close to one of the adorable little towns along the Trent Severn. There are very few conveniences at the docking wall of Lock 35: no water and no electric (at least at the upper wall where we stayed at), no small town close by to go buy supplies or to eat at a restaurant. However, there was decent WiFi available and CLEAN restrooms and showers. We are told by the locals, and have read as well, that from Lock 35 up to Lock 41 is pretty much the same situation. So be prepared and stock up at the last lock that offers all the conveniences: Lock 34 in Fenelon Falls. However, we will find out about all of this once we experience it first hand!!!

Angela Katsavavakis

Great camping spot! The staff are kind and helpful and the park is absolutely beautiful. Clean bathrooms, and I challenge you to try and find litter or anything out of place.

Justin Sadler

Great

Richard Cole

Excellent service and very friendly staff. Looking forward to 2021.

readontheroad

The bike trail along the waterway is an amazing ride. Fun for the whole family.

Candace Crowston

Love it, love going through the locks and love the Parks Canada staff who are friendly and efficient and getting even the non-boaters with boats where they need to be to navigate the locks.

Dave Dollimore

Kayakers warned to wear personal flotation devices and STAY AWAY from the dam. Dam causes underwater hidden fast current resulting in undertow pulling kayakers underwater. News reports group of kayakers pulled into dam Aug 2021 and 1 kayaker drown. Not for children.

Luke Luecke

one of the nicest on the trent severn

Eric Parsons

It was beautiful.

Dean Clarke

Peace and quiet, beautiful grounds, clean washrooms, hikes if you need to stretch your legs. Great, friendly lock staff

Darwin and Kirsty McMahon

Lock master here is crusty. Does not seem to regulate boat traffic equally. Rarely tells the boats to slow down in the NO WAKE zone. Same master in Lindsay

Ganesh R

We rented a house boat and toured through the Trent Severn. The lock masters are great to talk to they are all very knowledgeable. Great times

lol cat

Excellent place to begin your camping experience, staff is great , place is clean .. bathroom at a bit distance but very clean and functional.. love the location

Duane Gates

Natural and quite place. Friendly staff

Alexander Daunan

Bring your boat and relax along the waterway

Anil Shah

Parks Canada OTentK stay was awesome..

andrew crockett

Amazing lock workers , they are friendly, efficient and professional.

Kiran Varughese

I love boating. Staff is very friendly

Nilay Patel

Love seeing the big boats come through the locks.

Karthik Doddaballapura

A great water system camping spots on the way a good trip if you have the time

J.S. Baldwin

Sooooo beautiful:)

Nat Gabriella Laking

Nice and quiet place to hang out at the lock and the park around it.

Matt Wilkes

Very nice and quiet location to camp

john miller

Nice clean normally quiet lock

Doug Hayes

Great staff, awesome experience. Thank you Parks Canada!!

Kevin

Beautiful spot

Tarik M

You can dock your boat for the night. You can also rent a tent frame cottage for the night

Hugo

Remote and Peaceful

MrSenseirey

Very lovely spot, easy to get to. Staff are phenomenal. The Lock Master is super friendly, extremely outgoing, always smiling, and helpful. If anyone says anything different, then there is something wrong with them. The place is well maintained and the grounds are pretty. For sure coming back !!

Alex Drozwik

Absolutely beautiful lock. Perfect for camping. Locks 35 and 30 are the best on the trent.

Charles McGeoghan

Very nice and patient personnel. Shower drain inoperative and everything got wet.

Amanda Andrus

Love taking a long boat ride on a hot day. This lock made it more interesting. Staff very friendly and helpful. We bought a season's pass and will do the trek regularly.

Steven

One of the nicest locks on the system to overnite at.

Ram Loganathan

We came at around 11:15 AM on September 7th and nobody was at the lock to operate it... Kinda bummed that we didn't get to go to Coboconk for lunch

April Campbell

Nice little camping post. Cabins were nice and well maintained. Too much mosquitoes though. So take bug spray.

Quincy Lam

Great spot to moor overnight, 1 night stay limit. Has shower facilities, flush toilet and fire pit.

Bonnie Scott

Very quite. Nice spot to try up for the evening

Pop pop

Another beautiful spot on Trent Severn Waterway.

Charles Gregory

Great lock with power and water The staff are very helpful.

Charlene Vanderburg

Best lock on the waterway. Showers and wi-fi. Beautiful grounds and friendly staff.

William Anderson

Great place to check out for a day trip

Dave Wright

Been a long time since I had been there took my daughter through on her first boat ride. Good memories

Mark Kusnierz Real Estate

Nice place, friendly staff. Was able to show my kid from close range how a lock works.

Scott Rogers

Super friendly staff and fast gate openings.

Archana

Great campsite. Helpful staff, clean sites, and fun to watch the yachts drift up to use the lock. Was there with three kids and they loved it. Washrooms are brand new as of 2018 too!

Glen Gales

new washroom，new shower facility。cabin available here。

Ava von Niebelschuetz

Rented the Rustin Cabin here for one night in awesome September weather! Fire pit, BBQ, Private Dock, a deck and of course a cabin with lots of beds! Great short mountain biking trails behind the cabin on the small island. Great vibe and great location!

Kevin Shilling Ritchie

Good watere

Gman65

Great

Johanne Prince

Hot showers. Ice. Nice park.

Chris Allen

The new young lock master is not so friendly and family oriented, not stable for this position. However the location is excellent with beautiful scenery to visit with entire family.

Jacob Hopkins

Beautiful quiet location with great facilities and awesome staff. Alec (the lockmaster) is a friendly and helpful fellow, along with the rest of the staff. Great people to have a conversation with during your lockable or visit. Great camping areas adjacent to the locks.

Rainer Hassenstein

Beautiful lock to camp at and the staff were very pleasant with everyone.

Lynn McAuliffe

friendly staff, quick and easy got us on our way!

Venus Ayca Kartal

Beautiful and peaceful spot for a picnic and to watch the boats go by. Washrooms are modern and spotless. Staff is really friendly and helpful.

Betty McTague

Good, didn't stay enough

Chris Meredith

Quiet, easy to get in and out. Camping available if you are so inclined. Ample overnight docking. Nearby marinas if you need fuel.

Joy Brake

I love being able to travel lake to lake by using the locks. The price is based on the length of your vehicle. Eg. Personal watercrafts (Sea Doo) it's $20 for the day and you can go through as many locks as you can. The people working the locks are always very pleasant

Jon-Paul Richards

Love the people here and especially love to see the consistency from year to year, like Mike. I feel they are efficient at getting boats through the locks and friendly in doing so. And we appreciate that!

Steve Austin

So cool, it's like an elevator for boats. Unfortunately only has two floors through

Rana Alhammouri

Excellent Park for picnic with a nice view of lake and canal

Pete Gonzales

Well maintained and very friendly staff.

Kimm Shone

Quiet and beautiful. A great place to moor for the night as you're passing through.

Vicki Ayer

Staff were friendly and helpful. Very clean and quiet.

Tracey Lytle

Beautiful, mature park like setting, very clean, phenomenal Staff! Lock master Mike and staff do a great job!

Anne Poelstrs

Good times....

Christopher Fairbairn

nice clean lock with updated showers and washrooms.

Darlene Cornell

In weekends it is really crowded. But clean, peaceful... Good place for camping. Be careful , there are racoons ????

Patricia Aitken

Loved TenOTik camping there..a lot of mosquitoes but still nice place with good price to go❤

Andrew Collison

Nice setting. Clean restrooms. Fast and efficient passage.

Barefoot mart

Water beautiful & friendly people waving

Cathi

Friendly helpful staff.

Nick Legacy

By far my favourite lock I’ve visited so far - the staff here are amazing, the bathrooms and shower are extremely well-maintained and it’s unbelievably quiet. We’ve been seeing a lot of storm warnings (that never actually happen) so barely any boaters are out, just one person docked on the upper side and two on the bottom. The scenery here is amazing too, I don’t have any pictures on hand but I’m sure there’s a bunch of great ones posted on this page.

Arsalan Tariq

We stopped for lunch there. Beautiful scenery. Locks doing the best they can during covid

David R

Pretty standard fare. Pretty dead day but still a pretty long wait.

Robin Zhou (2nd)

Friendly staff. Easy lock to use

Garry McClean

Very beautiful area. Looking forwards to going back again

shane lin

Awesome lock.great lock master. Clean showers and bathrooms

Ryan Donovan

They have made 4 oTENTik a cabin and 4 camp site as of summer 2019. Sites are very good but apart from camping there are not so much activity unless you own a motor boat or water activity. Good place for couple of nights out.

Qurrat Shoaib

Rosedale lock is amazing, the staff are fantastic.

Gerald Winter

Love it. People are great & friendly. People are very helpful.

Robert Stewart

Lock has beautiful greenspace that is well-maintained as are the facilities. Staff is very friendly and helpful.

shelley Boundy

Bit slow but polite and friendly

Brendan Grills

We use Otentik in Trent Severn Waterways Lock 35 Rosedale for 3 days. The place is clean and beautiful. There's a small parking lot for the camper. You can park for free if you camp there otherwise you have to pay $2/day . The road to the Trent Severn Waterways Lock 35 Rosedale is unpaved and only covered with gravels. The park office is very close to the parking lot. The staffs are friendly and courteous. They sell firewood and ice in the office park. There are 3 Otentik sites, 2 tent camp sites and 1 cabin in this Lock 35 and they are located in The Deweys Island. You can go to the Island through the bridge. It's only 5 minutes walk from the park office. There's also a shared dock for Otentik 1-3. The Lock gate is almost always busy during the day. You cannot swim in there. If you are into fishing, you can go the dam near the camp site. They provide you with the propane grill, fire pit, solar LED light and USB charger in the Otentik. Otentik can sleep 6 people. The washroom and the shower station are clean and well maintained.

Matthew Cambas

Small lock, its only a couple feet difference so quick to get through, medium current in channel, friendly helpful staff.

D Hisley

Clean, nice grassy area and picnic tables, friendly staff, like the cottage for rent

Dave Sadler

Gate was locked. No Parking signs everywhere. Waste of time and gas.

C B

Helpful and friendly touchless locking.

Michael Provad

Hometown Ontario site, beautiful.

Kevin Worsley

Great place

Sharon Golby

Cool place to watch

Nancy Ross

No help from employees re covid, nice place if you want quite moring

Roy Kayser

Loved it! Beautiful area to camp at - not to far away!

Don Stark

water is peaceful and warm. you may paddle or kayak downstream and spend some time in the reed waves... super nice views. there is washroom and you may refill water there as well.

pappa p

Lock broken ... still a wonderful place to be ... (more wounded than "broken" ) ...

Mary

It's paradise on the water

Karen Lillie Filiatrault

Nice quiet spot compared to Fenelon and Bobcaygeon.

Lisa Laninga-Twohey

Little support or assistance no interest in overnight boater's at all.

ID McBeath

Different and amazing

Catherine Uffen

What a great place to camp. This is waterfront cottage for the 99%. Beautiful water, a small dock, a cabin (which would be illegal in most jurisdictions due to size), a fire pit and a gazebo. There is solar lighting and USB ports for mobile charging. What more to ask for? Perfect example of sharing economy. We need this in more locks.

Scott Parkin

Amazing place hwoever you gotta watch out for bugs especially mosquito bites in summer. Friendly staff.