Abandoned Burwash Correctional Centre | Urban Exploring | Camp Bison Burwash | Burwash Prison
Abandoned Burwash Correctional Centre | Urban Exploring | Camp Bison Burwash | Burwash Prison
Back in the spring of this year RiddimRyder and I decided to to an overnight up the long abandoned Burwash Correctional Centre in Northern Ontario.
You can get permission by the landowners by contacting them, signing a safety waiver and paying $20 per person.
Photo Gallery and whole story here:
https://www.freaktography.com/abandoned-burwash-correctional-centre-camp-bison-campout-urban-exploring/
Here is the 360 Video: https://youtu.be/YNyvNUAAR4Y
This makes for a relaxed and stress-free experience!
We picked our weekend and before we knew it, that weekend was here!
RiddimRyder Photography and Zenning with Zay were staying at Zays parents cottage, which is basically one hour from where they live and about 3 hours from where I live..so they already had a head start on me.
By the time I arrived at the Zenning with Zay family cottage, the smoke in the air was thick and the whole family was clearly well ahead of me in drinks…I had some catching up to do. I will spare you the rest of these details but I remember going to bed far later than I usually do on a night before a weekend of exploring.
RiddimRyder Photography Zenning with Zay and the rest of the clan stayed up and kept the party going.
On a day of exploring I am usually up and ready to go at 6am…..I woke up at 10am, Riddim, Zay and the whole family were already up and started their day….this is not a good start!
Riddim and I head out for our adventure which starts at an old abandoned hospital, we probably get inside around noon by the time we (I) was one effing around!
Now, we need food, beer, ice, fireworks and more for the night to come…we have a 2 hour drive to Burwash, and once we park my car we have a one hour walk
At approximately 5:30pm RiddimRyder and I finally park my car, we put on our protective bug suits, grab our gear and our heavy ice filled coolers and we start walking.
20 minutes later we realize we are at the wrong place, we parked too far away…back to my car we go and we finally find the proper parking spot.
Approximately 6:30pm…we start the long one hour trek into Camp Bison.
We were warned of a washout on the trail caused by a beaver dam, so when we passed what we THOUGHT was the washout, we continued, until about 40 minutes into the walk, we found the actual washout…a complete and total wash out of the path and we couldn’t find the alternate path.
We pressed on and ended up walking through mosquito infested swamp water that, at some points was above our knees.
The bug suit I bought protected me from the black flies, but it did not protect me from the mosquito death that I was dealing with at this point in time.
Finally, over an hour later we see the prison off in the distance, our boots are heavy, our feet are wet, our legs are wet and we are covered in mosquito bites.
It is at this moment, less that 5 minutes from touching the prison walls, RiddimRyder decides to get out the mosquito repellent he had packed and put some on…”do you want some of this?” says RiddimRyder……
We proceed into the prison, we make our way to the roof, kick off our wet boots, hang our wet socks, we crack open a cold and somewhat shaken beer and we cheers to the adventure that was the walk into Camp Bison, and we cheers to the adventures and laughs that lie ahead!
And then the sun sets on Burwash Correctional Centre
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