Walking & Strolling.
The eastern gates of the Loyalist Parkway open at Fairfield Park in Amherstview, where short flat lakefront walks pass the 1793 Fairfield House and the limestone-shelf shoreline of Lake Ontario. From there it is fifteen kilometres west along Highway 33 to Bath's heritage village, which gives a small waterfront loop past Centennial Park and the 1796 Fairfield-Gutzeit House.
The brief.
The Loyalist walking surface is flat and waterfront-anchored — Amherstview's Fairfield Park and the gates of the Loyalist Parkway, Bath Centennial Park and the heritage village core, and Stella's harbour and main street on Amherst Island. All three clusters are walkable end to end in under an hour and connect to the longer Great Lakes Waterfront Trail.
The Stella loop pairs with the M/V Frontenac II ferry from Millhaven — twenty minutes of crossing each way, 365 days a year, fare on the Millhaven side. The Bath cluster is best approached from Centennial Park along the lakefront and east toward the Fairfield-Gutzeit House and the village's pre-Confederation street grid.
May through October is the comfortable window; downtown Bath and the Amherstview waterfront are accessible into shoulder season.
3. places.
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Fairfield Park (Amherstview)
Lakefront municipal park at the eastern gates of the Loyalist Parkway; site of the 1793 Fairfield House and the limestone-shelf shoreline.
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Bath Centennial Park and heritage village
1784 Loyalist village; lakefront park and small downtown loop along Highway 33 past the Fairfield-Gutzeit House.
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Stella (Amherst Island)
Ferry village; main street walk past Neilson Store Museum, McGinn's General Store, and the harbour, reached on the M/V Frontenac II from Millhaven.
Today's read.
Cold but firm — winter-ready conditions · light winds · clean air.