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Highway 7 · KM 270 from Ottawa

Peterborough

The western bookend — canoes, the Lift Lock, and the Kawarthas beyond.

The western end of our corridor. Peterborough has its own full tourism apparatus, so we cover it lightly — but two stops deserve a mention before you point the car home:

The Canadian Canoe Museum, in its new waterfront home, is legitimately world-class — National Geographic put it on a global best-of list, and it earns it. And the Peterborough Lift Lock, the highest hydraulic lift lock on earth, has been raising boats twenty metres in one astonishing motion since 1904.

Heading back east? Norwood is 30 km behind you, and the chip trucks await.

See & Do

Canadian Canoe Museum

World-class, and named to National Geographic's global best-of list — over 100 canoes and kayaks telling Canadian and Indigenous history through the lens of the boats themselves.

Checked Jul 2026 · public sources
Beavermead Park

The city's only supervised beach, on Little Lake — lifeguards daily from late June through August. Rogers Cove nearby is the unsupervised alternative if the main beach is busy.

Checked Jul 2026 · municipal sources