Maple Mountain, Mountain peak in Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
Maple Mountain is a 642 m peak in Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, rising 37 m higher above its base than Ishpatina Ridge, Ontario's highest point. A 3.2 km trail climbs from Tupper Lake through mixed forest to the summit, where a 30 m fire tower stands.
In 1888 Dr. Robert Bell of the Geological Survey of Canada became the first known non-Aboriginal person to scale the mountain, and he gave it the English name Maple Mountain. The Temagami First Nation already knew it as Chee-bay-jing, "the place where the spirits go".
The Temagami First Nation call the mountain Chee-bay-jing, "the place where the spirits go", and regard it as a sacred site. The name is still used alongside the English one given in 1888.
The usual approach is by canoe and float plane; roads and trails in this remote area become hard to travel in poor weather. A 3.2-kilometre trail runs from Tupper Lake up to the summit tower.
The fire tower on the summit is 30 m tall and still intact, reached by a 3.2 km hiking trail. Maple Mountain rises 37 m higher over the surrounding land than Ishpatina Ridge, the highest point in Ontario, which makes it the greatest vertical rise among Ontario's top 25 peaks.
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