OUR TOWNS & COMMUNITIES
Find your place
in Muskoka.
Six starting points, countless ways to make a day your own. Explore the communities behind the scenery.
Waterfalls & main-street discoveries
Bracebridge
Bracebridge grew up where the Muskoka River tumbles over Bracebridge Falls, right beside the main street. It sits on the 45th parallel, halfway between the equator and the North Pole, which is why it calls itself Santa’s summer home. Come for the falls and the independent shops; stay for a slower, very local kind of weekend.
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Art, trails & waterfront afternoons
Huntsville
North Muskoka’s hub sits on the Muskoka River between Fairy Lake and Lake Vernon, under an hour from Algonquin Park’s West Gate. Downtown is walkable and creative, with a lookout above town, a busy arts calendar and four-season parks on the doorstep.
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Steamship heritage & time by the lake
Gravenhurst
The Gateway to Muskoka is the first lake town you reach heading north on Highway 11. Its revitalized Muskoka Wharf on Lake Muskoka is where the historic steamships still sail from, with a boardwalk, a museum and places to eat all within a short stroll.
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Bala, Port Carling & cottage-country days
Muskoka Lakes
This is the classic Muskoka of wooden boats and grand old resorts. The Big Three, Lakes Muskoka, Rosseau and Joseph, meet at Port Carling, the “Hub of the Lakes”, where locks lift boats between them. Down at Bala, where Lake Muskoka drains into the Moon River, cranberries are the local crop.
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Village stops & a little more quiet
Lake of Bays
Muskoka’s quieter east side is built around one big, many-armed lake. Baysville sits at its southern tip, Dorset on its eastern arm and Dwight on its north shore, where Highway 60 heads off toward Algonquin. It is the place for a slower day of villages, lookouts and water.
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Islands, shoreline & an open horizon
Georgian Bay
Muskoka’s western edge is pure Georgian Bay: wind-shaped pines, pink granite and the southern end of the Thirty Thousand Islands. Honey Harbour is the jumping-off point for Georgian Bay Islands National Park, while Port Severn marks the end of the Trent-Severn Waterway.
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