Vaughan
Vaughan is a city in Ontario, Canada.
Vaughan is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located in the Regional Municipality of York, just north of Toronto, Ontario. Vaughan was the fastest-growing municipality in Ontario between 1996 and 2006 with its population increasing by 80.2% during this time period and having nearly doubled in population since 1991. In 2021, the population of Vaughan was 323,103. It is the fifth-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area, and the seventeenth-largest city in Canada.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01McMichael Canadian Art Gallery
10365 Islington Avenue, Kleinburg, toll-free: +1 888-213-1121.
- 02Woodbridge Fairgrounds
- 03Reptilia Zoo
A 25,000 sq ft Reptile Zoo and Education Centre near Vaughan Mills and Canada's Wonderland.
From Wikivoyage: Vaughan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Canada's Wonderland
1 Canada's Wonderland Drive (YRT bus 760 from GO bus terminal at Finch subway station),.
- 02Kortright Centre for Conservation
9550 Pine Valley Dr (Exit on Rutherford Dr from Highway 400),.
From Wikivoyage: Vaughan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Romano's Restaurant
830 Rowntree Dairy Road, Woodbridge, romanosrest@yahoo.ca.
- 02Siamese Thai Cuisine
200 Whitmore Rd, Unit 11-12, Woodbridge,.
- 03Churrasqueira Red Rooster
Grilled & rotisserie chicken, parisienne potatoes, rice and homemade Piri Piri sauce.
From Wikivoyage: Vaughan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Vaughan
- Airports
- Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 21 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 82 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 120 km
- Hamilton → Vaughan13903 km · quickest by air, 29h 6m · NZ$3,050–4,720
- Windsor → Vaughan333 km · quickest by air, 4h 37m · C$140–210
- Ottawa → Vaughan348 km · quickest by air, 4h 41m · C$150–230
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Vaughan
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 Vaughan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextTake a day trip to Lake Simcoe or Lake Wilcox.
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Next door to Vaughan
Vaughan is 20 km from Toronto, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.