Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Ontario
Detourmap lists 89 places in Ontario, Canada, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Manitoulin Island. 68 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 89
- Oldest
- Sudbury Basin 1.85 billion years ago
- Little known
- 68 of 89
- Share of Canada
- 10%
Ontario 89
All 89, best known first.
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5.Sudbury Basin
Nature · 18500000th century BC · Notable
Second largest verified astrobleme on earth, remain of an Paleoproterozoic Era impact
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10.Georgian Bay Islands National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
National park in Ontario, Canada
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16.Fathom Five National Marine Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
National marine park located in Northern Bruce Peninsula, Canadian
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27.Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
National Marine Conservation Area in Ontario, Canada
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37.Kakabeka Falls
Nature · Hidden gem
Waterfall on the Kaministiquia river near Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
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49.Queenston Heights
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Urban park and heritage site in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
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64.Southwold Earthworks
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in Southwold, Ontario, Canada
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67.Laurier House
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Heritage house in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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68.Mackenzie House
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Municipal museum in Toronto, Ontario Canada
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75.Battle of the Windmill National Historic Site
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Historic site in Ontario, Canada
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78.Spencer Gorge/Webster's Falls Conservation Area
Nature · Hidden gem
Conservation area in Hamilton, Ontario
Elsewhere in Canada
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Ontario?
Manitoulin Island. Island in Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Ontario?
89: 63 nature & landscapes and 26 archaeological & historic sites. 68 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Ontario?
Sudbury Basin, dated to 1.85 billion years ago. 17 of the 89 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Ontario here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Ontario if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Ontario is a first-level division of Canada, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.