Pearson Airport to Ontario's Prominent Places

The province from the arrivals curb

Ontario's prominent places are two to four hours from Pearson in every direction — Algonquin and the lakes to the north, the Thousand Islands, the County and the capital to the east, Blue Mountain, Wasaga and the Bruce Peninsula on Georgian Bay to the north-west — and the transfer to any of them is a long-distance one: a fixed fare by vehicle class for the lodge, the inn, the cottage or the gate through the reservation engine, with the 407 toll, a stop or two on the way, curbside pickup at Pearson's pre-arranged area and the included waiting on a flight inside it, and meet and greet inside the arrivals hall as the one paid add-on. The long-distance page explains how a two- to four-hour fare is set; each page here says honestly where the train, a connecting flight or a bus is the better answer, and for whom the chauffeur is — the family with the cottage week's gear, the group of four to ten sharing one vehicle fare, the visitor with a timed reservation at the Grotto or a curtain to make, and the one whose flight landed late.

The cottage week, the wine day and the group

Three trips repeat across these pages. The cottage week: the seats fitted, the paddleboards and the bicycles in the Sprinter, the grocery stop at the last town, the door at the end of a gravel road the chauffeur confirmed the day before, and the collection a week later timed to the flight, with the family page explaining the gear. The wine day: the chauffeur as the designated driver the wineries assume you have, four or five doors with the cases to the boot at each, and the cases home to Pearson at no charge. And the group: up to ten in the Executive Sprinter from the airport or the city on one manifest, one fare split however the group likes, which on the long routes is cheaper per head than any other way of making the trip. The Muskoka and Niagara pages cover the province's other two destinations.

Places not yet on a page

Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands from Parry Sound, the Kawartha Lakes and Bobcaygeon, Haliburton's highlands, Killarney and Manitoulin, Sudbury's Science North, Sault Ste. Marie's Agawa Canyon train, Lake Superior's north shore, Pelee Island and Point Pelee, the Rideau Canal's lock towns, and every other place in the province are fixed-fare addresses in the engine today; these pages are guides, not a limit on where we go.