Young Street in Capreol

By Bala Menon

Capreol is a small town in Northern Ontario - located in a in a valley along the Vermillion River and surrounded by the magnificent Laurentian
Highlands.

The town is worth a day trip - if you get to Sudbury. It is just a little over 40 km north - and the town is known as the doorway to thousands of acres of quality hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, and canoeing.

The scenery is magnificent and the area contains a treasure of natural resources for the traveler and outdoor sports enthusiast. The city itself is very small - home to only about 4000 people and is part of the City of Greater Sudbury.

There are fine recreational facilities available - a double rink, a curling club, downhill skiing and cross-country skiing.

The most famous attraction is, of course, the Northern Ontario Railway Museum and Heritage Centre at Prescott Park. The museum's mandate is to provide a unique and educational tourist attraction that preserves and displays the railroading past and heritage of Northern Ontario.Capreol is also considered a great place to to relocate to if you are considering a move to the wonderful North!

Capreol formed around the Capreol railway station which was a major divisional point on the Canadian National Railway line, and was named for Frederick Chase Capreol, the original promoter of the Northern Railway of Canada.

Pics of the Trains to Nowhere at the Capreol Rail Museum....by Bala Menon

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