The best swimming is at North West beach. The beach is sandy and so is the lake bottom. Also great for picnics and there are some outdoor grills scattered throughout the park for barbecuing.

Another cool thing to do is to rent a canoe and paddle through the marsh. There are some nice winding turns full of water lilies, turtles, and red-winged black birds and then it’s a straight paddle across the open pond. An hour’s leisurely paddle will take you to the other side where you can beach the canoe and see (and swim in) Lake Erie again. The marsh has a boardwalk and tower/lookout for looking out over the rushes and water.

There’s a train (a van with some covered trailers with seats) that will drive you out to the tip where you can get out and walk down the beach to Canada’s most southern tip of mainland. The waves change the shape of the point on a regular basis. Undertows make this area not safe for swimming but there’s plenty of swimming in other parts of the park.