Niagara Ontario: More than just the Falls!
I'm using Niagara Falls NY weather sticker because there isn't a one for Niagara Ontario. I'm pretty sure the weather doesn't know which side of the river is which:) Niagara Ontario is a busy region in southern Ontario. It includes the Falls and parks protecting them, the gorge and parks alongside it, the hydro-electric stations that use the Niagara river for the power, and the country behind the river and Parks where much of Ontario’s fruit and wines are grown and made.
Getting there is easy. Follow the QEW (Queen Elizabeth Way) south from
Toronto
for about an hour and the road branches off right to Niagara Falls and Fort Erie or east to meander through vineyards or along the Niagara Parkway running alongside the Niagara Gorge to Niagara on the Lake. If you follow the Gorge route, there are a number of places of interest, the Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory, Brock's monument and Laura Secord’s house.
Laura's courageous hike through the wilderness and enemy forces saved the day when the Americans invaded again about a year after the battle at Queenston Heights.
Niagara Falls, the waterfalls that is, are a product of the Niagara Escarpment, a ridge of hard rock that runs from the narrow peninsula between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario all the way up to form the Bruce Peninsula about 700 Kms north. The whole length of the ridge is a designated UNESCO heritage site. Along the ridge is the Bruce Trail, a hiking path, and various ski resorts, particularly the ones at Niagara Falls, the town, focuses on mass tourism rather than the retired, or soon-to-be retired, crowd. Here’s where you find the exciting attractions and events that keep kids of all ages happy, like helicopters, boats, aerial tramways, elevators to skypods, theme parks with wild rides, and all those other holiday activities that go with family vacations.
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There are two principal vacation centers in the Niagara region, the truly world-famous
At Brock's Monument, is this memorial to another hero, or in this case heroine, of the 1812 War, Laura Secord. The memorial looks out over the Niagara river and gorge toward Queenston where General Brock and his force of Regulars and native Americans drove back an invading American force. 
