--- title: "Ontario – what to see, and every way to get there | Mixroutes" description: "How to get to Ontario from Chicago, Grand Rapids and Milwaukee: every way compared, with today's quickest and its fare. Ontario is the southernmost…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/ontario" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/ontario.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Devonshire_Lodge_%28Low-Martin_House%29%2C_Windsor%2C_Ontario%2C_2025-08-31_01.jpg/1920px-Devonshire_Lodge_%28Low-Martin_House%29%2C_Windsor%2C_Ontario%2C_2025-08-31_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- ![Ontario](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Devonshire_Lodge_%28Low-Martin_House%29%2C_Windsor%2C_Ontario%2C_2025-08-31_01.jpg/1920px-Devonshire_Lodge_%28Low-Martin_House%29%2C_Windsor%2C_Ontario%2C_2025-08-31_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) # Ontario Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada. [Plan a trip to Ontario](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Ontario) [From Chicago](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Chicago&to=Ontario) ## Every way there - Chicago → Ontario Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/chicago-to-ontario) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Chicago&to=Ontario) - Grand Rapids → Ontario Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/grand-rapids-to-ontario) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Grand+Rapids&to=Ontario) - Milwaukee → Ontario Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/milwaukee-to-ontario) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Milwaukee&to=Ontario) The field note What is in and around Ontario, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move. [Read the note on Ontario](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ontario) What Ontario has - N Scheduled flights nearest airport GRR is 713 km away - Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time - N Ferries no crossing within 25 km - Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band - N Bike and scooter share no share feed known - N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Sault Ste. Marie, 304 km. 49.250°, -84.500° Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it is home to over 14 million people, which is approximately 38.5% of the country's population. Ontario is the second-largest province by total area, after Quebec, and the fourth-largest jurisdiction of all the Canadian provinces and territories. Ontario's capital is Canada’s most populous city, Toronto. The province is additionally home to the country’s national capital, Ottawa. Get in ## Getting to Ontario Most visitors arrive by way of Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ IATA) in Mississauga (just outside of Toronto). The airport is Canada's busiest and a major hub for most Canadian air carriers. If your destination is in Southern Ontario, you will likely pass through Pearson at some point. See ## Worth seeing Niagara Falls will be at the top of the list for many travellers. More water goes over the three falls here per minute than over any other falls in the world. The city of Niagara Falls has many other places of interest, from beautiful gardens, to butterfly conservatories to ticky-tacky tourist traps. The Niagara region is the most important of the Wine Regions of Ontario. Do ## Things to do Ontario offers many outdoor activities every season of the year. In the northern part of the province, you can hike the Sleeping Giant, a series of mesas that resemble a human figure, near Thunder Bay, hike through Temagami's Old Growth Forest, or climb the Fire Tower and canoe Lake Temagami. At Fathom Five National Marine Park at Tobermory, you can dive around or take a boat tour of shipwrecks. Eat ## Where to eat The Greater Toronto Area, Ottawa, Golden Horseshoe, and Niagara Falls/Niagara Peninsula each offer you a wide variety of Indian, Chinese, Thai, Italian, Latin American, Japanese, fast food, and French cuisines (all formal and informal). Toronto and Ottawa have large immigrant populations, and have an unusually high variety of quality specialty cuisines, that cater to Western, Asian, European palates. How locals move ## Getting around Ontario the local way - Get in It is possible to cross by seasonal ferry to the Thousand Islands (Cape Vincent, New York to Wolfe Island, Ontario) with a bicycle; crossing on foot there makes little sense due to the rural distances involved. From [Wikivoyage: Ontario](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ontario), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-07. Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ontario), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Chris Woodrich (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons. --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/places/ontario, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt