Fort Erie
Fort Erie is a town in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada.
Fort Erie is a town in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. The town is located at the south eastern corner of the region on the Niagara River, directly across the Canada–United States border from Buffalo, New York. It is the site of Old Fort Erie, which played a prominent role in the War of 1812.
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Worth seeing in and around Fort Erie
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Stevensville
Stevensville is a small community in southern Ontario, Canada in the town of Fort Erie, most notable as the birthplace of Canadian entrepreneur James L. Kraft.
4.6 km · compact rural community in Fort Erie, Ontario · Wikipedia
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Getting to Fort Erie
- Airports
- Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 23 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 79 km · Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 98 km
- Stations
- Fort Erie Airport, 5 km
- Hamilton → Fort Erie84 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · C$12–16
- Toronto → Fort Erie97 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · C$20–27
- Windsor → Fort Erie529 km · quickest by road, 8h 16m · $50–70
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No local-transport research exists yet for Fort Erie
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Fort Erie. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in and aroundThe Scajaquada's Grant Street exit makes for a convenient route to Grant-Ferry, Grant-Amherst and Buffalo State College.
- Get in and aroundFrom south to north, major crosstown routes on the West Side include: on the Lower West Side, Virginia Street, Porter Avenue, Connecticut Street, Massachusetts Avenue, and Hampshire Street; on the Upper West Side, West Ferry Street, Lafayette Avenue, West Delavan Avenue, and Forest Avenue; and in Black Rock and Riverside, Amherst Street, Hertel Avenue, and Vulcan Street.
- Get in and aroundGrant-Ferry is the only place on the West Side where on-street parking is ever hard to find.
- Get in and aroundParking meters are in place on Grant Street between West Delavan Avenue and West Ferry Street, as well as on West Ferry for half a block in either direction from Grant.
- Get in and aroundBeginning at the corner of Niagara Street and Busti Avenue, eastbound buses on Route #12 head northward along Niagara Street, proceeding eastward through the Upper West Side and Grant-Ferry via West Ferry Street.
From Wikivoyage: Buffalo/West Side, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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