5 Things you might not know about Peterborough, ON

As seen on staging.ottawaroadtrips.com

If you know Peterborough, you may well know about some of these places. However, in my experience, many Ottawans don’t know Peterborough well at all, even though it’s only a three-hour drive away—about the same distance as Prince Edward County or Syracuse. So these five salient facts may well have flown right under your radar. And they might just be enough to spur your next trip to what I think of as the capital of the Kawarthas. (In fact, this post really covers Peterborough and the Kawarthas, because I visited both the city and the wider region on a trip earlier this week.)

Should you have a pressing need for somewhere to land your private plane, Elmhirst’s Resort on Rice Lake near Peterborough has you covered, with both a seaplane base and a grass runway.