Raccoon Lake Campground doesn’t have its own park office, so you’ll need to check in at Rock Lake Campground. That said, Algonquin Park is now on a paperless permit system.

Until last summer, the word “camping” reminded me of swatting at pesky mosquitoes, sweating profusely in a too-small tent and surviving off hotdogs — and I hate hotdogs. It wasn’t until my sister and ...