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Top 3 Daytrips for Paddling in Frontenac Provincial Park

Frontenac Provincial Park offers a unique combination of backcountry experiences with family-friendly camping adventures. Ontario’s most southern wilderness park, Frontenac Park provides outdoor enthusiasts 13,000 acres, 22 lakes, 160 km’s of hiking, and 48 interior campsites.…

Back Road Cycling In Frontenac

Doug Kennedy, who runs a business, Frontenac Docks, from his home north of Verona, is a familiar figure in the spring, summer, and fall, riding his bicycle while lit up with reflective gear. Kennedy is connected to a network of cyclists from across Eastern Ontario, and often…

Museums & Archives

South Frontenac Museum The South Frontenac Museum is located in a classic stone school house at 5595 Road 38 in Hartington. Owned by the Township of South Frontenac, it is managed by the South Frontenac Museum Society. Whether you're exploring Frontenac for the first time or…

Railway History in Sharbot Lake

Along the K&P Trail, in the heart of Sharbot Lake, the Railway Heritage Park and Walkway invites visitors to discover and celebrate Frontenac’s rich rail history. The Railway Heritage Walkway is a series of informative signs along the former K&P track bed. Maps of the Walkway…

Dedicated to a Strong Alpaca Industry

For the past 20 years Robert and Hanne Quigley have maintained a “growing” alpaca business between Snow Road Station and Ompah, in North Frontenac. The farming landscape has evolved and Silent Valley Alpaca has been able to change along with it. With the resurgence of…

Art in Frontenac

Arden Artisans Arden Pottery and Arden Batik have been fixtures in the picturesque village for almost 50 years. These studios are the core of the Arden Artisans, but the group includes other artists from the surrounding lakes, making Arden a different kind of shopping…

North Frontenac Dark Skies Preserve

North Frontenac has some of the most southerly exceptional dark skies in Canada. For millions of people in southern Canada and the north-east US, this is the best view of the night sky and the Milky Way that they will most likely experience. The Dark Sky Preserve is a public…

Food in Frontenac

Restaurants Casual eateries are all the rage in Frontenac, including: the Shamrock Bakery in Plevna, The Cookery in Inverary, Muddy Waters in Verona, Sydenham Country Café and Mill Street Café in Sydenham, the Maples, Cardinal Café and the Crossing Pub in Sharbot Lake, and…

Frontenac Farm to Kingston Table

In Frontenac County, there’s a community of farmers who believe in growing crops and raising livestock in a way that is sustainable and ethical. Their farming practices actually improve the land, support healthy and happy animals, and produce food that is whole and nutrient…

Where to Stay

Whether you stay in a cottage, or renovated cabin in historic Fernleigh Lodge; or one of the sparkling B&B’s or inns networked throughout Frontenac, you might notice one thing when you lay down to sleep in frontenac. Nothing, that is, you hear nothing at all, at first.. Soon,…