There has been a slight shift in cottage country tourism resulting in more people traveling throughout the fall season. Tourists are now realizing that booking fall vacations ahead of time is essential.
In Ontario's cottage country, the summer season is in full swing. Lakeside cottage resorts and inns are packed with happy vacationers, eager to enjoy their annual summer holiday by the
lake. Surrounding towns and villages swell with vacationing families keen to explore the area and participate in its attractions. Each year, local businesses anxiously await the summer
season and the annual invasion of tourists. During July and August, cottage country businesses operate at full capacity in order to take advantage of the surge in business, before the
quiet of the off-season months return.
Over the past few years, there has been a slight shift in cottage country tourism. In Ontario resort areas like the Kawartha Lakes Region, while the bulk of tourist traffic still drops
off after the Labour Day weekend, more and more vacationers are choosing to visit lake country in the fall. Many tourists are discovering that cottage country is a very attractive place
off-season as well and that autumn is the very best time for a bug-free Ontario cottage country vacation. Fall tourists are attracted not only by the breathtaking displays of beautiful
fall colour, but also by the absence of summer crowds and by a pleasant, moderate temperature. Reduced rates in the off-season also provide an incentive to plan a fall vacation getaway.
In the beautiful Ontario resort area of the Kawartha Lakes, the summer season has been steadily extending well into the fall months for some time. Little more than an hour drive north
east of Metropolitan Toronto, the Kawartha Lakes Region encompasses many delightful small towns such as Lindsay, Bobcayegeon, Fenelon Falls, Lakefield, Omemee, and Buckhorn, and the area
is scattered with numerous lakes, forests, and parklands. Fall events abound in the Kawarthas. Every community, it seems, has a fall fair or a fall studio tour of local artists to
entertain and delight visitors to the area. The annual Buckhorn and Burleigh Falls Colours n' Crows Fall Festival, which runs from September 22 thru October 8th, features many exciting
events including an imaginative assortment of scarecrows displayed throughout the region.
Kawartha Lakes resort owners Marian Peirce and Rick Cassidy of Marricks Landing Cottages (http://www.marrickslanding.com or call Marian Peirce & Rick Cassidy at 1-800-342-1495.