North Frontenac Dark-Sky Preserve — Canada

About this spectacle

North Frontenac Dark-Sky Preserve is a designated dark-sky area in Ontario's cottage country, offering some of the finest stargazing in eastern Canada. Far from the light pollution of Ottawa and Toronto, visitors are rewarded with inky, unpolluted skies where the Milky Way stretches overhead in vivid detail, thousands of stars visible to the naked eye, and deep-sky objects like nebulae and galaxies within reach of binoculars or a small telescope. On clear moonless nights the silence of the Canadian Shield wilderness amplifies the experience — the only sounds the call of loons on nearby lakes. The preserve is best experienced from late spring through early autumn when nights are long enough and temperatures mild enough for extended sessions under the stars.

When to go

May — Oct, peak Jul — Sep

Getting there

Nearest airport: YOW. Nearest city: Ottawa.

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