Outdoors in Frontenac County

Jul 01, 2022

Frontenac County offers a variety of allseason experiences! Lakes are a popular destination in the summers for boating and swimming and in winter they host an active ice fishing community. At Frontenac Provincial Park, our regions most popular outdoor destination, there are many reasons to enjoy a hike, paddle, or camping trip, especially in the fall when the leaves are changing and the temperatures are a little cooler.

The campsites and roadways that make up Frontenac Parklands provide unique opportunities for wilderness camping, canoe and kayak trips, picnics, fishing expeditions, and so much more. The parklands are managed and maintained by the North Frontenac Township on provincially administered crown lands. Schooner Lake, Fortune Lake and Round Schooner lake feature sheer granite cliffs and clear deep lakes. The landscape is unusual and rare enough that is has been identified as an area of natural and scientific interest by the province of Ontario.

Frontenac County was once home to numerous railways travelling to and from destinations across Eastern Ontario. In recent years some of the former rail lines have been revived as multi-use trails re-connecting the former rail communities and activating tourist adventures across the region. The Frontenac K & P Trail travels north south through the region forming a trail spine thought many villages and several townships. The name K & P is inherited from the former Kingston and Pembroke Highway, which is the corridor along which the K & P travels 180 km north from downtown Kingston through Sharbot Lake to Calabogie and the Ottawa Valley. Kilometre zero starts at Confederation Park where a paved path rambles beside the shores of Lake Ontario before it transitions to a stone hard packed passage as it ducks under the 401 into Frontenac County. From here cyclists have a 75 km pedal from Kingston to Sharbot Lake.