Camp Wawanakwa

Camp Wawanakwa is the campsite in which Total Drama Island takes place and where Total Drama: Revenge of the Island will take place. It is located on an island somewhere in Muskoka. Located in the main camp area are two cabins, each home to the Screaming Gophers and the Killer Bass which are further divided into boys and girls, a communal bathroom, an outhouse that also serves as a confessional and the main lodge, where the campers would meet every day for their regular meals. Just west of the main camp site is the campfire pit, where elimination ceremonies are held. The only way onto the island is by boat or plane, normally coming to rest at the Dock of Shame. Aside from the main camp, most of the island is filled with trees and mountains, one of the most famous being the large, one thousand foot mountain. Surrounding the island is a large lake known as Lake Wawanakwa. On the other side of the lake is Boney Island.

The woods surrounding the camp is home to many of the recurring and particularly dangerous animals on the show, such as the Bear and the Sasquatchanakwa. The camp grounds themselves are loathed by nearly all of the campers, as the cabins are filled with roaches, the food is disgusting and the bathrooms are absolutely repulsive. In order to get the campers to even arrive on the show, Chris had lied to them saying it was a five star resort. Interestingly, on an island right next to the camp is a fancy resort known as the Playa Des Losers, to which campers would be shipped once they were eliminated from the game.

In Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, Courtney mistakenly runs into a large backdrop wall of a forest. Believing the island is fake, she scales the wall and discovers that, all this time, they had been close to civilization and the entire camp was a set to fool the campers into thinking it was a real island.

With the second season, Total Drama Action, taking place in an abandoned film lot, Chris leaves the camp behind. However, in the episode Beach Blanket Bogus, they return to the beach by bus (which further suggests that the place is not an actual island) for their second and possible tiebreaker. Despite this, none of the regular landmarks of the camp were shown. The cast mates return to Camp Wawanakwa once again in Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen for their martial arts based challenges, this time the forest and one of the landmarks was shown in this episode. The cast mates returned two episodes later in Top Dog; the challenge is to find a way back to the film lot with their animals while avoiding booby traps.

The island's final Total Drama Action appearance was in The Aftermath: IV. Chris and Chef Hatchet were escorted there via limousine, due to Chris giving the driver bad directions, after rushing to try to get in the Aftermath studio.

It has been confirmed that the series will return to Camp Wawanakwa with an entirely new cast for the fourth season, Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. It has been confirmed that the camp was abandoned and then transformed into a toxic nuclear waste dump, which has resulted in much of the island becoming dark, foreboding, and run-down, as well as many of the creatures being horrifically mutated.

Trivia

 * While many hints have been given that the island is fake, there is still some controversy as to the true nature of the island. In the special, Courtney discovers a burger joint outside of the walls of the forest. However, in Beach Blanket Bogus, Chris takes the contestants to the beach by bus. More proof that the island is false is that in Top Dog, the cast mates arrived to the island by bus and that the challenge is to find a way back to the film lot, which would be impossible, since the film lot was not on an island. Finally, in The Aftermath: IV, Chef and Chris accidentally drove to Camp Wawanakwa. However, this may have been a joke to exaggerate Chris' poor navigation skills. All this may prove that Camp Wawanakwa is a false island. However, the only problem is that in several episodes, there is a full aerial view of the island (most prominently in X-Treme Torture), and it clearly depicts it as an island, with nothing more than a few smaller islands around it and no mainland nearby.
 * This is the first location of Total Drama where the contestants arrived.
 * This is the only location that is the main setting of two seasons.
 * Total Drama World Tour is the only season in which Camp Wawanakwa is not seen.
 * Though, it was seen in a never-before-seen clip in Aftermath: Bridgette Over Troubled Water.