Lake Ontario Park — Attraction in Ontario

A little piece of Heaven right here in Kingston. Old old trees, wind and water.

3 guys were kite surfing when I was there this week. Holy wow, those guys flew across the water & once and a while the went aloft. Oh would I love to be young enough to do that!

The trail over to Portsmouth Harbour was wild 2 days ago. High winds crashing waves.....WOW! CORK was on too as there were hundreds of small sailboats out between Kingston & Wolf Island. Fabulous!

There are some trees along the trail that are very old and very tall. I wonder how old they are & the stories they could tell. I suspect they are even older than the Rockwood Asylum they live behind. Can't wait to see where the trails go on both end east and west. The park seems to be popular with people with young kids as the water park is always pretty busy.

Sitting at the top of the hill & looking out over the lake is so very beautiful I don't know why the place isn't packed. I can tell from the look on peoples faces that the place has a calming feeling envelopes you.

Kingston Mills and Jones Falls...

It's a large, very spacious, and open green area west of downtown Kingston.

There are a fair grounds which briefly have activities during the summer, though I didn't see any of them this year which may mean it's no longer something the park participates in.

There is a large campus of derelict Kingston city buildings, some of which were once psychiatric treatment facilities. Most are now unoccupied or part of the Ministry of Transportation.

Providence Care Hospital is also located in the park.

Basically, if you are looking for a large green space to have a picnic, play sports (there's a baseball diamond near the hospital), this is the place to do it. Some of the hospitals sports courts are publicly accessible as well if basketball is something that you want to do in the park.

In terms of the parks bounds, it basically begins in Portsmouth Harbour, and terminates at Providence Care Hospital, making it quite a large...

Drove down through the park the other day. It had been years since i had been there last. It is a beautiful place with lots of open space, picnic areas, kids playground equipment, you can see the water from pretty much anywhere in the park. It's very clean and well maintained. I think I am just a sucker for the old days when it was park/amusement park, and they had the rides, etc, which I believe would be a great source of income and attract more tourists if it was restored to original keeping the playground as it is now and using the open space to bring in rides and attractions. It appears that as they already have on-site maintenance, it would be easy enough to have cross-training to maintain any amusement equipment. If the city invested in some equipment, cross-trained people hired a few more people they would makes their money back in a very short time and bring in more revenue...