Explore the Riverlands
Consider these maps a starting point for exploring the Riverlands. Each suggested day trip is designed to spark ideas, connect villages and landscapes, and help you shape a route that feels less like a checklist and more like a day well spent.
Around Rideau Lakes
This map traces a way to explore the Rideau Lakes from a nearby base such as Gananoque or Westport, looping outward on quieter roads shaped by water. It includes time in Westport, plus villages like Newboro and Delta, linked by the Rideau Canal and its connected lakes. Along the way, the landscape does much of the work: open water edged by forest, rocky shorelines, farmland, and long stretches where the view keeps pulling you onward. In Delta and Newboro, historic mills and lockstations, seen today at the Old Stone Mill and the Newboro Lockstation, hint at how water once powered daily life and shaped these communities. These places are chosen for texture rather than attractions: stone main streets, waterfront pauses, independent shops, and local encounters that reward lingering. It is a style of travelling that values time, conversation, and letting the day take its shape naturally. Press the Maphub button.
Riverlands Base Towns
The Riverlands Base Towns map helps you choose where to stay, then explore outward with easy day trips. Each base offers a different kind of comfort and energy, from walkable main streets and great dining to waterfront views and quiet evenings, so you can match your stay to the pace you want. From there, the Riverlands opens up in every direction: villages, backroads, farms, waterways, trails, and small places that reward a slower approach. Use this map to see which base towns best connect to the experiences you want most, then build your days around short drives and the freedom to return to a familiar place each night. Grey pins mark base towns, and blue pins mark Riverlands villages. Press the Maphub button.
Frontenac Arch Coffee Edit
Frontenac Arch Coffee Edit is a curated day of small town coffee culture across a landscape shaped by water, stone, and quiet roads. Start with coffee and baked goods in Athens, then follow the route toward Delta for a slower pause and a stroll at the Old Stone Mill. The day continues through Elgin with more baking and small town texture, before finishing in Gananoque, a riverside town, for late lunch. Designed to cover roughly half of the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve, this map is for travelers who measure a good day by warm cups, good conversation, and places worth lingering in.
Timing note: If you follow the route in order, plan for about 3.5 hours to reach LaVerne’s, depending on where you start. LaVerne’s typically closes at 3:00 PM, so consider brunch in Delta and a second bite in Gananoque if you want a more relaxed pace. Press the Maphub button.