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rfmcdonaldThe only rest stop on Greyhound's five-hour-long route connecting Toronto and Ottawa is at The Log Cabin Restaurant, located on Ontario Highway 7 in the community of Actinolite, located in the Municipality of Tweed in Hastings County on the ill-defined border between the regions of eastern and central Ontario. The community's history is described by John Hopkins' October 2011 article in local publication Country Roads, "After the fire", describes how the community of Actinolite took its current form after a devastating forest fire in May 1889, morphing from the lumber town of Bridgewater to a mining town named after an asbestos-like mineral to a tourist stop (the earliest incarnation of the Log Cabin Restaurant appears to date to 1933) to a retreat for artists and the spiritually-minded.
The Log Cabin Restaurant is a perfectly serviceable rest stop, something hopefully conveyed in its Yelp review: clean, well-stocked and well-tended, with friendly service. Its nondescript scenery is itself scenic, the restaurant being surrounded by wilderness. It was something of a novelty to be so surrounded, actually; I've spent so much time in cities.
There are other pictures of the Log Cabin Restaurant on Flickr, like this colour picture and this black and white picture, both taken in August 2007.
The Log Cabin Restaurant is a perfectly serviceable rest stop, something hopefully conveyed in its Yelp review: clean, well-stocked and well-tended, with friendly service. Its nondescript scenery is itself scenic, the restaurant being surrounded by wilderness. It was something of a novelty to be so surrounded, actually; I've spent so much time in cities.
There are other pictures of the Log Cabin Restaurant on Flickr, like this colour picture and this black and white picture, both taken in August 2007.
