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Upper-tier regional municipality in Ontario, Canada

Regional Municipality of Waterloo

The Regional Municipality of Waterloo is a metropolitan area of Southern Ontario, Canada.

Regional Municipality of Waterloo
Regional Municipality of Waterloo · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Regional Municipality of Waterloo is a metropolitan area of Southern Ontario, Canada. It contains the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo, and the townships of North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich. Kitchener, the largest city, is the seat of government.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Regional Municipality of Waterloo

9 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
    Wilfrid Laurier University

    Wilfrid Laurier University is a public university in Ontario, Canada, with campuses in Waterloo, Brantford and Milton. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh prime minister of Canada.

    2.9 km · public university in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

    Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is an independent research centre in foundational theoretical physics located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1999.

    3.8 km · theoretical physics research institute in Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Conestoga Mall

    Conestoga Mall is a shopping mall located at 550 King Street North in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Located at King Street's interchange with the Conestoga Parkway, it is the largest shopping centre in Waterloo, and third-largest in Waterloo Region.

    2.2 km · shopping mall in Waterloo, Ontario · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    RIM Park

    RIM Park is a 500-acre city park facility offering both outdoor and indoor amenities on the northeast side of the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, near the Eastbridge neighbourhood. Key facilities and features include the Manulife Financial Sportsplex and Healthy Living Centre, the heritage Elam Martin farmstead, The Benchwarmer sports bar, and the Grey Silo Golf Course.

    3 km · City park in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Huether Hotel

    The Huether Hotel is a historic building in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Originally built in 1855, renovations beginning in the 1870s established the building in the High Victorian style.

    3.4 km · hotel building in Waterloo, Ontario · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Waterloo Public Library

    The Waterloo Public Library is the public library system for Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1888, the library has four branches, as of May 2025.

    3.5 km · public library in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery

    The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery is a public art gallery located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is the only Canadian art gallery exclusively dedicated to exhibiting and collecting contemporary Canadian ceramic, glass, enamel and stained glass works of art.

    3.7 km · art Museum in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    University Stadium

    University Stadium, also known as Knight–Newbrough Field and formerly known as Seagram Stadium, is a stadium on the campus of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. The stadium has a capacity of 6,000 and serves as home to the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks football and rugby teams.

    3.4 km · stadium in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Waterloo Park

    Waterloo Park is an urban park situated in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on land within Block 2 of the Haldimand Tract. Spanning 44.9 hectares within the Uptown area of Waterloo, it opened in 1893 and is the oldest park in the city.

    3.9 km · park in Waterloo, Ontario, 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 Regional Municipality of Waterloo

Airports
John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 58 km · Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 73 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 156 km
Stations
Conestoga, 2.3 km
  • Hamilton → Regional Municipality of Waterloo
    13811 km · quickest by air, 31h 39m · NZ$3,100–4,790
  • Toronto → Regional Municipality of Waterloo
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · C$13–18
  • Windsor → Regional Municipality of Waterloo
    241 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · C$35–47
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Not yet researched

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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 Regional Municipality of Waterloo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are numerous ground transportation operators between Kitchener and Pearson who operate door-to-door services and scheduled minibus services from several large hotels in Kitchener.

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

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Around it

Next door to Regional Municipality of Waterloo

Regional Municipality of Waterloo is 59 km from Hamilton, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.