Ontario is easily accessible to international travellers, with many airlines offering direct services. Regular flights also connect Toronto and Ottawa with many American cities.
If you are driving, you can enter Ontario by major highways at over a dozen gateways. To locate them, ask for a copy of our Official Ontario Road Map, available through most of our travel information centres or view the online map.
Rail and bus lines also enter Ontario from many major hubs in the northeast and midwestern USA.
Travel within Ontario is easy. Once you arrive in Ontario, an extensive network of chartered and scheduled flights, bus and rail departures, and car rental services make it possible to travel to many communities throughout the Province.
For advice on driving in Ontario -- on the documents you will need to bring with you, speed limits, availability of motor fuel, road conditions, emergency services, and winter driving tips, and other regulations, please review our "Information For Motorists".
The province has a network of regional and national airlines serving travellers to and within the province. Over 75 international airlines land at Ontario's main international air gateway, Toronto's Toronto Pearson International Airport. Bus services to Pearson International Airport operate every 20 minutes from selected downtown hotels and from the Islington, York Mills and Yorkdale subway stations. For more information on the airport bus service, call Toronto Airport Express.
More limited international traffic serves airports at the cities of Ottawa, Windsor, and London (Ontario). There are also local airports in over 50 of Ontario's smaller communities.
Charter and fly-in shuttle air service is available in many remote areas and may be part of a travel package to northern hunting and fishing camps.
For more complete and current information, consult your local travel agent or the Ontario Travel Information Centres.
Some operations in popular tourist communities offer short air excursions for tourists (by airplane, helicopter, and even hot-air balloon). Information on these services is normally available through local tourism authorities.
Via Rail, a national rail service, links most of Ontario's major cities. It connects with cross-Canada and U.S.A. rail lines at various border crossings. Its schedules include express, frequent-stop and (on some lines) request-stop services. Consult Via Rail for more information.
Northern Ontario lines offer a number of memorable scenic train excursions, including the Algoma Central Railway's tour of the Agawa Canyon from Sault Ste. Marie, and its Sault Ste. Marie to Hearst line; the Ontario Northland Railway's Polar Bear Express train from Cochrane to the James Bay coast, and its service from Toronto north to Timmins, connecting at Porquis for Cochrane and Kapuskasing.
The Greater Toronto Area is served by a complex network of subways, streetcars, light rail transit (LRT) lines, and suburban (GO) train lines and bus routes. For more information, click here for Go Transit trains, or here for all other Toronto municipal transit (TTC) information.
About twenty bus lines provide services between most communities in Ontario.
Information on specific fares and schedules is available from your travel agent, or at bus terminals in Ontario and various other parts of North America. You can also consult our Ontario Travel Counsellors for information on services between specific communities.
You may use ferry services to cross lakes and rivers at many points around Ontario. Some of these are toll ferries; Locations of these crossings are shown on the Ministry of Transportation's official Road Map of Ontario. For more information, contact our Ontario Travel Information Centres.
Many attractive cruises and water tours, both guided and self-piloted, are offered on lakes and rivers around Ontario. Consult local travel authorities for information.
