Within park boundaries is also the muse for Group of Seven member Lawren Harris, who in 1924 painted the now-famous image of Pic Island.

Flora and fauna in the park include many hardy species of subarctic plants and a rare herd of woodland caribou.

The park is home to one of the most popular beaches on Lake Superior’s north shore and a model of a former German prisoner of war Camp at the Neys Visitor Centre.

Today, the once hot magama chamber is exposed surface rock on the northern shore of Lake Superior.

The extremely cold and rough waters of Lake Superior have caused its rocky shores to be home to subarctic plant species.

These plants are able to survive in a microclimate that is cooler, windier and moister than those of nearby areas which are not as strongly influenced by Lake Superior.

Some of the most common plant species include the Bunchberry, Labrador Tea, blueberry, bearberry, larch, mountain maple, and a wide variety of fungi.

[4] At the end of World War II, Neys was turned into a processing camp for POWs in the northwestern Ontario region.

It was then turned into a minimum-security work camp for civilian prisoners from the Thunder Bay area, and finally dismantled in the 1950s.

Ontario's forests have historically been used for logging purposes since the first White Pine loggers traversed the Ottawa Valley in the late 17th century.

The Neys Region has a more modern logging heritage that is melded with park and national history along with the formation of the town of Marathon, Ontario.

Along the western border of Neys Provincial Park, runs the narrow, and shallow sandy bottomed Little Pic River.

With the loss of the steam engines on the railway, the introduction of the sea lamprey into Lake Superior and the highly anticipated Trans Canada Highway's completion, Northern Ontario was dying.

In the course of the years that the Little Pic River was vital to the Marathon Pulp and Paper company's operation, lumberjacks came in all shapes and sizes.

"The Tower Trek Trail", a 10.5 km hike that takes approximately 4.5 hours for a round trip, allows access to a view of Pic Island.