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Inner Harbour, Kingston

Inner Harbour is a neighbourhood located in downtown Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

The place

Inner Harbour is a neighbourhood located in downtown Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The Inner Harbour district is bounded by Joseph Street to the north, Princess Street to the south, Division Street on the west and the Cataraqui River on the east. The area is within the King's Town District. The District is represented on Kingston City Council by Councillor Rob Hutchison for the 2010-14 term of office.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Inner Harbour, Kingston

10 places 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. 01
    Queen's University

    Queen's University at Kingston, commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than 1,400 hectares of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England.

    1.7 km · university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rideau Canal

    The Rideau Canal is a 202-kilometre long canal that links the Ottawa River at Ottawa with the Cataraqui River and Lake Ontario at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Its 46 locks raise boats from the Ottawa River 83 metres upstream along the Rideau River to the Rideau Lakes, and from there drop 50 metres downstream along the Cataraqui River to Kingston.

    2.4 km · canal between Ottawa and Kingston, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Royal Military College of Canada

    The Royal Military College of Canada, abbreviated in English as RMC and in French as CMR, is a military academy and, since 1959, a degree-granting university of the Canadian Armed Forces. It was established in 1874 and conducted its first classes on June 1, 1876.

    1.9 km · military college in Kingston, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Fort Frontenac

    Fort Frontenac was a French trading post and military fort built in July 1673 at the mouth of the Cataraqui River where the St. Lawrence River leaves Lake Ontario, in a location traditionally known as Cataraqui.

    1 km · fort in Kingston, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception

    St. Mary's Cathedral in Kingston, Ontario, Canada is a Roman Catholic cathedral.

    1 km · Catholic cathedral in Kingston, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Fort Henry

    Fort Henry National Historic Site is located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on Point Henry, a strategic elevated point near the mouth of the Cataraqui River, where it flows into the St. Lawrence River at the east end of Lake Ontario.

    2.5 km · historic fort and National historic Site of Canada · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Richardson Memorial Stadium

    Richardson Stadium, officially named George Taylor Richardson Memorial Stadium, is the football stadium for Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario. The stadium is primarily used for Canadian football but also has hosted other sporting events such as soccer and rugby.

    2.6 km · Football stadium in Kingston, Ontario · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Agnes Etherington Art Centre

    The Agnes Etherington Art Centre is located in Kingston, Ontario, on the campus of Queen's University. The gallery has received a number of awards for its exhibitions from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Association of Art Galleries and others.

    1.7 km · art museum in Ontario, Canada; part of Queen's University in Kingston · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Bellevue House

    Bellevue House National Historic Site was the home to Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald from 1848 to 1849. The house is located in Kingston, Ontario.

    2.2 km · house in Kingston, Canada · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Kingston City Hall

    Kingston City Hall is the seat of local government in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Occupying a full city block facing Lake Ontario in Kingston's downtown, the city hall is a prominent building constructed in the Neoclassical style with a landmark tholobate and dome.

    1.2 km · city hall in Kingston, Canada · Wikipedia

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 Inner Harbour, Kingston

Airports
Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 129 km · Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 137 km · Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester (ROC), 157 km
Stations
Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, 3.2 km · Kingston Airfield, 1.8 km · Shoal Tower, 1.4 km · Kingston Bus Terminal, 2.7 km
  • Syracuse → Inner Harbour, Kingston
    135 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · $17–23
  • Rochester → Inner Harbour, Kingston
    151 km · quickest by road, 5h 18m · $25–34
  • Buffalo → Inner Harbour, Kingston
    245 km · quickest by road, 6h 10m · $34–46
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Inner Harbour, Kingston

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 Inner Harbour, Kingston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHowever, ferry by car from the United States is possible by taking Horne's Ferry (May–October) from Cape Vincent, New York state to Wolfe Island (Ontario).
  • Get inBy driving the short distance across Wolfe Island, you can get to downtown Kingston via the free Wolfe Island Ferry.
  • Get inA year-round ferry to Wolfe Island and a group of seasonal tour boats leave directly from downtown Kingston.
  • Get inThese include Hornes' Ferry service, between Wolfe Island and Cape Vincent, New York, ended in 2025.
  • Go nextMarinas and boat tour operators are found in town on the St.

From Wikivoyage: Kingston (Ontario), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    484 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    611 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    3,051 km
  4. 04
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    3,076 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,081 km

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