Waterloo
Waterloo is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Waterloo is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is one of three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. Waterloo is situated about 94 km (58 mi) west-southwest of Toronto, but it is not considered to be part of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). At the time of the 2021 census, the population of Waterloo was 121,436.
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Worth seeing in and around Waterloo
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.
- 01University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo is a public research university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on 404 hectares of land adjacent to uptown Waterloo and Waterloo Park.
1.9 km · public research university in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 02Wilfrid 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.
1.3 km · public university in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 03Perimeter 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.
900 m · theoretical physics research institute in Canada · Wikipedia - 04Sunfish Lake
Sunfish Lake is a small, 25 hectare meromictic lake located north-west of Waterloo, Ontario, in the village of St. Agatha in northern Wilmot Township, and is the source of Laurel Creek.
9.5 km · lake in Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 05St. Jacobs Farmers' Market
St. Jacobs Farmers' Market is a farmers' market and flea market in Woolwich, Ontario, Canada.
5.8 km · farmer and flea market in Woolwich, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 06Institute for Quantum Computing
The Institute for Quantum Computing is an affiliate scientific research institute of the University of Waterloo located in Waterloo, Ontario with a multidisciplinary approach to the field of quantum information processing. IQC was founded in 2002 primarily through a donation made by Mike Lazaridis and his wife Ophelia whose substantial donations have continued over the years.
3.4 km · research institute at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 07Conrad Grebel University College
Conrad Grebel University College is a liberal arts university college affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is affiliated with the Mennonite Church Canada.
2.3 km · Canadian university college in Waterloo, Ontario · Wikipedia - 08St. Jerome's University
St. Jerome's University (commonly shortened to St.
2.3 km · federated with the University of Waterloo, Canada · Wikipedia - 09Victoria Park
Victoria Park is the oldest park in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, situated downtown. It is the site of numerous events and festivities.
2.7 km · urban park in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 10Joseph Schneider Haus
The Schneider Haus National Historic Site, formerly Joseph Schneider Haus, is a museum in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Situated on some of the earliest land to be settled by non-Indigenous peoples in what would become Waterloo County, the museum includes the oldest remaining dwelling in the area and was named a National Historic Site of Canada in 1999.
3 km · house in Kitchener, Canada · Wikipedia
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Getting to Waterloo
- Airports
- John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 58 km · Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 75 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 156 km
- Stations
- Kitchener railway station, 2.3 km · Conestoga, 3.6 km
- Hamilton → Waterloo13811 km · quickest by air, 31h 37m · NZ$3,100–4,790
- Toronto → Waterloo94 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · C$14–18
- Windsor → Waterloo241 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · C$36–48
- 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 Waterloo
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 Waterloo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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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Next door to Waterloo
Waterloo is 59 km from Hamilton, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kitchenercity in Ontario, Canada3.3 km
- Regional Municipality of Waterlooregional municipality in Ontario1.3 km
- St. Jacobsvillage in Ontario, Canada8.1 km
- Walter Bean Grand River Trailtrail in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada5.5 km
- Kitchener Centrefederal electoral district in Ontario, Canada (Since 1997)3.2 km
- Breslauunincorporated community in Ontario, Canada8.5 km