Grand Bend & Area Chamber Of Commerce

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The Grand Bend & Area Chamber of Commerce supports local business and provides Visitor & Tourist services at the Welcome Centre in Grand Bend.

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The Welcome Centre in Grand Bend, just 500m from the Municipality of Lambton Shores' Main Beach - a Blue Flag Beach, is almost entirely financially supported by local businesses through their Chamber Membership fees and the Chamber's fundraising efforts.

The Grand Bend Area has been a vacation destination for more than 100-years! Today, the Main Beach not only features a Beach House with flush toilets, outdoor foot showers, splash pad and adventure playground, but FREE summer music concerts every Sunday through July and August. Parking fees support the maintenance of these facilities and the work involved to ensure uninterrupted Blue Flag status since 2007 (http://www.blueflag.org/menu/awarded-sites/2014/northern-hemisphere/canada/ontario/grand-bend-beach).

It Starts at the Beach....but ends where you want!

The Area boasts one of the most popular provincial parks - The Pinery - which has 1,000 camping sites and 9 day-use beaches, canoe, kayak and bike rentals.

Huron Country Playhouse's two auditoriums together seat 950 theatre patrons and runs top-rated musicals, comedies and popular theatre June through August.

Grand Bend Motorplex is one of the largest racing venues in Canada and offers drag-racing, road-racing, oval track racing and motorcross. It's also the home of Eastern Canada's largest drag racing event.

The Giant Sand Dune, located in Port Franks, the biggest sand hill around and kids of all ages enjoy the challenge of climbing up and walking down.

In Spring, the annual migration of 15,000+ Tundra Swans from Chesapeake Bay to Canada's Arctic makes the Thedford Bog fields, located behind the Lambton Heritage Museum on Highway 21 the place to witness one of nature's wonders.

Fossil hunting for crinoids, brachiopods and trilobites in the shallow, child-safe river at Rock Glen Conservation Area is a popular activity as is viewing the County's only Waterfall.

For art lovers there are a dozen local artist galleries and working studios in Forest, Port Franks and Grand Bend. Annually, Paint Ontario in March and the Studio Tour in May provide art lovers feature events to view and purchase original works of art by Ontario and local artists.

For the more adventurous, the area boasts one of only 3 parachuting centres in Ontario, as well as parasailing off the Main Beach and wakeboarding and paddleboarding lessons and rentals at Windmill Lake in Bayfield.

Want to keep your feet on dry ground? There are ten 18-hole and two 9-hole golf courses within 5 to 45 minutes from the beach!

Beaching - Boating - Hiking - Fishing - Golfing - Drag Racing - Cycling - Skydiving - Parasailing - Wakeboarding - Paddleboarding - Birdwatching - Theatregoing - Galleries & Studios - Historical Walking Tours - Heritage Museums & Exhibits - 60 Festivals & Events.

What do you want to do on your vacation?