- Ken Reid Conservation Area. Biking Trails • Nature & Wildlife Areas. By Tom0888.
- Academy Theatre. Theatres.
- Century Cinemas 3. Theatres. By Torontofrequentflyer.
- Olde Gaol Museum. Speciality Museums.
- Lindsay Memorial Park. Water Parks.
- Village Winery. Wineries & Vineyards.
- Lindsay Square Mall. Shopping Malls.
- Victoria Park. Parks.
Note: Bobcaygeon Beach Park is currently closed for redevelopment.
The beach will not be open for the 2021 season.
Kawartha Lakes Public Beaches.
| Beach | Location |
|---|
| Riverview Beach Park | Bobcaygeon |
| Centennial Park West | Eldon |
| Omemee Beach | Emily/Omemee |
| Birch Point | Fenelon Falls |
Located just an hour away from Toronto, yet a world away in atmosphere, the small town of Lindsay is an ideal place to live in Ontario if you love nature and the great outdoors. There are many outdoor cafes, pubs and classic watering holes in Lindsay's historic downtown where you can relax and enjoy a pint or two.
Balsam Lake boasts lovely waterfront, clear, clean water, sand beaches and dunes along with large, private bays. As it is the highest point on the Trent-Severn Waterway, Balsam Lake is known as the cleanest lake in the Kawarthas.
The Kawartha Lakes (/kÉ™'wÉ”rθÉ/) are a chain of lakes in south-central Ontario, Canada that form the upper watershed of the Trent River. The lakes are located on the boundary between the Paleozoic limestone regions of the Golden Horseshoe, and the Precambrian granite Canadian Shield of northern and central Ontario.
Lake Scugog is an artificially flooded lake in Scugog, Regional Municipality of Durham and the unitary city of Kawartha Lakes in central Ontario, Canada. It lies between the communities of Port Perry and Lindsay. The lake has been raised and lowered several times over its history.
Interesting Fact: Stoney is the deepest Kawartha lake with a maximum depth of 32 m. It is also the most north eastern of the lakes.
The lake was described as a body of water about 1â„3 of a mile (0.5 km) across that originally had a depth of 6 to 10 feet (1.8 to 3.0 m).
Geography. The District Municipality of Muskoka occupies an area of 6,475 km2 in Southern Ontario that includes the towns of Bracebridge, Gravenhurst and Huntsville, as well as the townships of Georgian Bay, Lake of Bays and Muskoka Lakes.
The latter includes the Greater Toronto Area's satellite municipalities, such as Peterborough, Barrie, Guelph, Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and the Niagara Region. The GTA continues, however, to be in official use elsewhere in the Government of Ontario, such as the Ministry of Finance.
The City of Kawartha Lakes respectfully acknowledges that we are situated on Mississauga lands and the traditional territory covered by the Williams Treaties. We are grateful for the opportunity to work here and we thank all the generations of people who have taken care of this land - for thousands of years.
Kawartha Lakes, formerly Lindsay, city, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It was formed in 2001 by the merger of the former town of Lindsay and the other communities constituting what until the amalgamation had been Victoria county. It was named for the Kawartha Lakes, a chain of lakes in the region.
Kawartha Lakes, chain of 14 lakes in southeastern Ontario, Canada. They stretch across Peterborough and Victoria counties, just north and west of Peterborough and 30–70 miles (50–115 km) northeast of Toronto. Kawartha is a Huron Indian word meaning “bright waters and happy lands.â€
Haliburton Lakes
- Beech Lake.
- Big Hawk Lake / Little Hawk Lake.
- Boshkung Lake.
- Canning Lake.
- Drag Lake.
- Eagle Lake.
- Gull Lake.
- Haliburton Lake.
The name Muskoka comes from the name of an Ojibwe or Chippewa tribe chief named Musquakie which means "not easily turned back in the day of battle".
In 1615, explorer Samuel de Champlain travelled via the river system. Huron and Ojibway Indians inhabited the area. Actually †Kawartha †is an Ojibwa word meaning †shining watersâ€.
Kawartha Lakes was created in 2001 by the amalgamation of all the municipalities in the former county of Victoria, including Lindsay, Bobcaygeon, Verulam, Fenelon Falls, Omemee, Sturgeon Point, Woodville and 10 townships. The name is taken from the name given to a group of lakes in the area, the Kawartha Lakes.
From pan fish to sport fish; large and small mouth bass, pike, perch, rock bass, pickerel and muskie, Kawartha Lakes offers some of the best year round freshwater fishing in the world.
Havelock was an important freight depot from the 1880s to the 1960s. The railway is now run by Canadian Pacific as Kawartha Lakes Railway and its activity today consists of transporting nepheline syenite and crushed basalt rock from two mines north of Havelock operated by Unimin.
This is one of Ontario's prime cottage and vacation areas, encompassing the County of Peterborough and the City of Kawartha Lakes (formerly Victoria County) and is encircled by Durham region and Haliburton, Northumberland and Prince Edward Counties.
Victoria County, Ontario
| County of Victoria |
|---|
| Capital | Lindsay, Ontario |
| Government | |
| • Type | Democracy |
| Warden | |
Nationally the number sits at 75, putting the Lindsay area in the middle of the pack out of 273 cities. The Lindsay area sits above Peterborough overall as one of the most dangerous cities in Canada sitting at 102 in terms of all crime.
| Bobcaygeon |
|---|
| Province | Ontario |
| Municipality | Kawartha Lakes |
| Incorporated | 1876 |
| Amalgamated | 2000 |
