Hello From Ontario – A Southern Ontario Tour: Creemore, Collingwood

Hello From Ontario – A Southern Ontario Tour: Creemore, Collingwood And Orillia

Late spring is the perfect time for a driving tour, so yesterday my co-workers Vanessa, Khurram and I set off to check out the countryside around Toronto. Neither one of my co-explorers has lived in Canada for very long, so they havent really had a chance to discover areas outside the Big Smoke. So this was their first opportunity to venture forth into the hinterland that surrounds our big city.

After leaving the 16-lane frenzy of Highway 401 and a brief ride on the 410 we drove into Ontarios countryside north of Brampton. The landscape started to open up – farms, fields and forest started to appear. The serene rolling hills north of Ontarios capital have a subtle beauty to them and I started hearing comments like this is like a picture book, this would be a great place for spending a weekend etc. The scenery around Hockley Valley and the hilly moraines further north offer quite breath-taking views over Ontario farm country.

Our first stop was in the village of Creemore, a little village tucked away in the Mad River Valley, surrounded by the Purple Hills. The...