Welcome to Buckhorn Buckhorn is the heart of the Kawarthas. This small town wraps around Lock 31 of the Trent-Severn Waterway, between Upper Buckhorn Lake and Lower Buckhorn Lake. Buckhorn is a perfect combination of country and cottage, and this community serves as a natural stopping-point for all sorts of adventures. There’s lots to see & … Read more
Visit our Trip Planner Search for “Peterborough” on our Trip Planner and you’ll be overwhelmed with awesome options for experiencing the “Electric City” and the surrounding county. You can also click here to reach out to the trained travel counsellors at the City of Peterborough and Peterborough County Tourism for assistance planning your trip. Scroll … Read more
The canoe is absolutely central to Canadian identity — so much so many of us haven’t stopped to reflect on how deep those roots go. I’m an avid canoeist myself (my canoe, the affectionately named Swamp Bullet, is a regular fixture of the waters around Peterborough), but even so I hadn’t taken the time to … Read more
I recently came across a clever design that superimposed a public transit network map over the Trent-Severn Waterway. In the same way the TTC subway map is separated into various routes, this metaphorical map includes such lines the “Scugog Connector” and the “Kawartha Line.”
From the globe-traversing outriggers of the South Pacific to Amazonian dugouts to the birchbark craft of Turtle Island, the canoe is a fascinating example of convergent cultural evolution: in many isolated cases around the world a very similar design of craft has emerged to answer the question of the most beautiful and efficient way to navigate the regional waterscapes.
Visit our Trip Planner: Search for “Lakefield” on our Trip Planner and you’ll get plenty of options and ideas to connect your adventures along the Trent Severn Waterway.
Escape to Another World: One of the uncanniest sensations that canoeing creates in the mind of the paddler is the sense of being so close and yet feeling so far away.
Wolf Island Provincial Park is another unsupervised provincial park on the list of hidden gems along the Trent-Severn Waterway. The park covers 220 hectares between Burleigh Falls and Buckhorn Ontario.