Retro experiences that are still open. Worth the drive.
A chip truck at a Long Point boat livery the Ferris family has run for 95 years, on the property where their Old Cut Inn once had a snack bar and dance hall. Come hungry for dill pickle fries.
For more than a century the Arbor has fed Port Dover at the foot of Main Street, for generations with foot-longs and its own orange Golden Glow. In 2026 it got new owners, and the same menu.
Single screens, balconies and century-old auditoriums: the independent Ontario cinemas that outlasted the multiplex, many saved by the neighbourhoods around them.
Barcades, pinball parlours, a beach arcade and a pinball museum on Highway 17: where to find classic cabinets and flippers in Ontario right now.
A giant goose, a nickel you can walk up to and a muskie the size of a house: Ontario's big roadside landmarks are still standing, and still worth pulling over for.