It’s a catch 22: The busiest times for most theme parks are the times when everyone (including you) wants to go.
But if you’re willing to plan, cooperate, and make a few compromises, you can enjoy days of relatively line-free adventures.
Whether you’re looking to ring in the New Year or just play in the snow, there are thousands of ways to get away from it all within a half-days’ drive of your home this winter.
Below are some of the funnest destinations you may or may not have thought of, along with a selection of the cities that fall within a roughly four-hour radius of them…
When snow, sleet, and Arctic air masses convince you to break down and winterize your vehicle (or vehicles), take a second and help the planet.
Keeping the environment in mind when winterizing your ride can also be kind to your wallet, as well as the Earth.
In the interest of going green when the landscape turns white, check out our handy tips from bumper to bumper…
Why fight for a parking spot in a big city mall, sweating through miles of indoor noise and advertising, only to buy the same things everyone is buying for everyone else?
We know it’s depressing… But we mention because we have a plan:
Why not spend next weekend on a boutique-town-crawl in search of something unique and interesting from a locally-owned shop or gallery?
You may find just what you never knew you were looking for…And perhaps along the way, you may find a little slice of life in small-town Canada…
Few countries are as shaped by the land as much as Canada:
From soaring mountains to mossy fjords to grasslands to more lakes and rivers than anywhere else on Earth, our national identity is all about the sea, the sky and the open road that connects it.
Try out these patriotic road trips for a heightened feeling of pride in our land, from sea to sea…
Spooky, eerie, and just weird: Upper Canada is full of history, and not all of it is fit for squeamish folk around a campfire or lantern of days-gone-by.
From spectral leftovers of brutal battles, to lost settlements, to screaming passageways, and a seeming reversal of gravity itself, there’s no shortage of creepy places to drive to and see in Ontario.
No longer out-of reach multi-thousand-dollar frills built into luxury cars, add-on GPS units can cost as little as a fill-up for a large SUV today (well, during an especially expensive week at the pumps.)
Now, you’ve got no excuse for picking one of these up. While you’re at it, here are some of the coolest gizmos you can add to truly trick-out your automotive navigation system:
There are roof-racks and there are bike carriers. There are suction-cup animals and there are tissue-box-holders…
…And then there are car-add-ons so far-out that they challenge reason: Things so bizarre, one wonders how they even end-up as street-legal.
Though you won’t find any of these ridiculous implements in your local automotive section, they all bear mention here for anyone who loves a good laugh on a long, relaxing drive:
From frozen poo to corrosive cow saliva to accident-causing potatoes, there’s no shortage of stupid stunts, crazy claims, and outrageous accidents from the world’s diciest drivers.
Here’re our picks for the cream of the crop, er, should we say, the bottom of the barrel:
Here’s your chance to literally go where no one has gone before: Would you believe that in this age of GPS and Google Earth, there are some parts of Ontario in which humans have never set foot? There are more than a few acres – square kilometers even – on Earth where no one has been. And in recorded history, we haven’t even been to all the places where lines of latitude and longitude meet.
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