I don't KNOW the answer, but I suspect the answer is NO.  Self-service is easy enough for someone to pick up at Atikokan, Nym or French Lake (even Prairie Portage has that option).  But, if someone has to cross the lake to take care of a drop box, my guess is that "it isn't happening."

Any any case, if you have to call the park office, please post what you find out because I may be following in your tracks next season.

dd

I've picked up permits in the off season at BH. It's just the same,,,permits in small box near poster shelter with info about the park,,,,drop in a slot cut into a large pipe nearby when you're done.

LLC is the same but it's in the front part of the ranger building,,,separate closed in porch area,,,door is side by side to the ranger station's main door,,,deposit in pipe there too,,,pipe is inside the building also.

Jimbo, The only hitch, and it happened once to me before, is if someone's taken all the blank permit slips. Then we just wrote our initials on our money and deposited it in the pipe. Best we could, and we never saw anybody anyway.

Good luck, have a safe trip. Hope we bump into you there.

As I understand things, both BH and LLC are First Nation entries. I'm not sure what differences that entails but there is a slight difference. An extra drive or paddle? Six of one.... I'm sure either would be sufficient.

db wrote on Sep 13^th, 2009 at 7:25am:


One difference is the ranger can go home for lunch and each night at LLC,,,not so at BH,,,there they stay in the cabin. Usually the rangers trade back and forth each week between BH and LLC.

Jimbo shouldn't have any trouble going to BH. I'll be doing the same thing just before him by a couple days.

HERE IT IS... THE DEFINITIVE ANSWER TO MY QUESTION, COMING STRAIGHT FROM AN E-MAIL RESPONSE FROM SUPT ROBIN REILLY!

DRUM ROLL, PLEASE:
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"You can pick up the permits at any of the stations in the office……although once in a while they are all taken.   But you are correct that every station operates in the same fashion…..Nym Lake as well.    The stations don’t all close at the same time for example Prairie Portage is open until the third week in September.    Most close at the end of August or early September."
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Looks like Jim J nailed this one down pretty well.

I am grateful to Robin for his extremely prompt response to my e-mail.  Now I'm hoping there are at least a few forms left in the box by the time I get there at the very end of the month!

Thanks to all who contributed to this thread.

Jimbo   

I slip Yankee cash down the chute & a Jimbo Picto is created on the nearest wall, explaining the situation in detail.  Also, I commit to memory the serial numbers on a couple of the bigger bills I put in the till to preserve my show of good faith.

In any case, paddling back to the car, driving to Atikokan & back, ain't gonna be in the plan.  Too bad they don't show their form on-line; I'd print off a copy of a blank, fill it out, & take it with me, just in case.  [Robin, if you're reading, please note this "continuous improvement" suggestion.]  Could be that I circle back at the end of the trip to see if any forms have appeared.

Then there's always Plan B.  I could treat it like a "free coffee" day at the plant.  Every once in awhile we used to dispense free coffee to the workers... it went over pretty big.  Anyway, could be I interpret the park's lack of preparedness as a show of their "generosity" (ie. free coffee day).

Something tells me I need to stick with Plan A.

Later,

Jimbo   


P.S.  Then there's Plan C.  Show up in Quetico Park with an American potato.  Canadian Potato Police would be on me before I could butter it!  I could get THEM to contact Q authorities... assuming they e-mail Robin versus trying to get anyone to answer the phone.

I'll let you guys know how it turns out.