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 Ontario touches four of the five beautiful Great Lakes, Lakes Huron, Superior, Ontario, and Erie as well as the St. Clair River. It also shares many other famous rivers with the United States of America, including St. Mary's, St. Lawrence, and the Detroit River. Traveling to Ontario is convenient with bridges in from Michigan and New York as well as a tunnel in Detroit. Travelers venturing into northern Ontario can pass over the famous Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan, which connect Lake Superior with the lower Great Lakes and avoid the rapids of the St. Mary's River, as they drive over the International Bridge. Northern Ontario, which stretches west to Manitoba, has lush forests, mountains, and rugged coasts for adventurers who love boating, white-water canoeing, kayaking, hiking, and fly-in fishing in the provincial parks or in the many natural areas. Many travelers enjoy driving-camping vacations following the northern coast of Lake Superior to Minnesota. Others like to leave their cars behind and take the Algoma Central train through the scenic Algoma Canyon which is beautiful in all four seasons. Winter brings special fun at Searchmont, an hour north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, where skiers and snowboarders like the challenge of its steep slopes. Cross-country skiing, dog sledding, and snowshoeing are also popular winter activities in northern Ontario.

Travelers can follow the picturesque and craggy Canadian Lake Huron coast to central Ontario or enter Ontario at Sarnia. Going east from Sarnia, visitors to Ontario have easy access to Stratford and its Shakespeare Festival, rich farmland, and the city of  London,  or they can go to Toronto, the major metropolitan area of Ontario and Canada. On beautiful Lake Ontario, Toronto offers the visitor excellent lodging easy access by expressway, train, or airplane, and public transportation. Visit the theaters, museums, shopping, and restaurants of every ethnic variety and gourmet taste. Toronto, an education, medical, and banking center, is famous for its hockey teams as well as having an excellent zoo and fascinating science center to captivate visitors of all ages. After visiting Toronto, tourists can drive east to historic Upper Canada and Quebec.

A visit to southern Ontario starts in Windsor where there are interesting casinos, fine restaurants, and elegant shops. Windsor is a cosmopolitan city and the gateway to southern Ontario where the primary crops are tomatoes and tobacco. Vacationers enjoy the northern Lake Erie Coast with its quaint villages like Harrow, where you can find historic farms that include those which were land grants from George the Third, and Point Pelee, the southern most area of Canada. The southern Lake Erie region of Ontario is famous for its bird migration routes which draw bird watching enthusiasts from all over the world. Travelers can meander along the Lake Erie coast or return to the QE 2 and drive east to revisit Toronto or journey on to Niagara Falls, Ontario. En route to Niagara Falls, visitors drive by the "breadbasket" of Ontario and see many rich farms, orchards, and vineyards along the west shore of Lake Ontario. Before arriving in Niagara Falls, tourists can see locks from the vast St. Lawrence Seaway system that opened the Great Lakes to international shipping. Once in Niagara Falls, visitors can enjoy the beauty of the falls from either Ontario or New York and the variety of entertainments for young and old alike.