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Articles, field notes and long reads
Reported stories, seasonal guides and local history from across Muskoka, Parry Sound, Simcoe County, Southern Georgian Bay, the Haliburton Highlands, the Kawarthas and Algonquin.
Featured · Things to do · Haliburton Highlands
The Haliburton Highlands arts trail, studio by studio
A sculpture forest, a working art school and a small town main street: the highlands have quietly built one of the strongest arts economies in rural Ontario.
CentralOntario.ca Editors · 30 May 2026 · 5 min read
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History & culture · The Kawarthas
Indigenous Central Ontario: the Nations, the treaties and where to learn
From the Teaching Rocks to the Williams Treaties First Nations, an introduction to the Indigenous peoples of Ontario's cottage country and how to visit respectfully.
28 October 2026 · 6 min read
Itineraries · Southern Georgian Bay
Two days on the escarpment and the bay
Lookouts, a rail-trail, waterfalls and a harbour town with a grain elevator on the skyline. A weekend loop that works in every season except the worst of the deep freeze.
12 September 2026 · 5 min read
Things to do · Parry Sound
The 30,000 Islands without a boat
You do not need a charter to see the world's largest freshwater archipelago. Four shorelines around Parry Sound put you on pink granite with the channels opening in front of you.
9 August 2026 · 5 min read
History & culture · The Kawarthas
Petroglyphs, locks and drumlins: reading the Kawartha landscape
The Kawarthas were shaped by ice, then re-shaped by a canal. A handful of sites let you see both layers of history in a single weekend.
21 June 2026 · 6 min read
History & culture · Simcoe County
Huronia: what the mission sites at Midland actually preserve
Sainte-Marie among the Hurons reconstructs a French Jesuit mission that lasted ten years. The Wendat story around it is longer, and the two are best understood together.
25 April 2026 · 6 min read