--- title: "Fort Erie – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Fort Erie, Canada: Fort Erie is a town in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. Nearby: Stevensville. Every way there from the planner, and what we have…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fort-erie" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fort-erie.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Fort_Erie%2C_Ontario_%282013%29.jpg" --- Town in Ontario, Canada # Fort Erie Fort Erie is a town in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. ![Fort Erie](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Fort_Erie%2C_Ontario_%282013%29.jpg) Fort Erie · Wikimedia Commons The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Erie%2C_Ontario), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Stevensville 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevensville,_Ontario) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## 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 Erie 84 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · C$12–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/hamilton-to-fort-erie) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Hamilton&to=Fort+Erie) - Toronto → Fort Erie 97 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · C$20–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/toronto-to-fort-erie) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Toronto&to=Fort+Erie) - Windsor → Fort Erie 529 km · quickest by road, 8h 16m · $50–70 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/windsor-to-fort-erie) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Windsor&to=Fort+Erie) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Fort%20Erie) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in and around The Scajaquada's Grant Street exit makes for a convenient route to Grant-Ferry, Grant-Amherst and Buffalo State College. - Get in and around From 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 around Grant-Ferry is the only place on the West Side where on-street parking is ever hard to find. - Get in and around Parking 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 around Beginning 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Buffalo%2FWest_Side), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Fire Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fire-island) US 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 548 km 2. [Vinalhaven and the Fox Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vinalhaven) US 9 ways of moving, 13 sources 831 km 3. [Bacalar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bacalar) MX 9 ways of moving, 41 sources 2,836 km 4. [Caye Caulker](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/caye-caulker) BZ 9 ways of moving, 42 sources 2,925 km 5. [Vieques](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vieques) PR 8 ways of moving, 12 sources 3,038 km If you know how people move in Fort Erie – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cfort-erie&title=Fort+Erie&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Ffort-erie), and the note gets an entry. 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