Things to do and See in Hamilton

Check out Tourism Hamilton!     Below are some ideas as well.

Tours

• Historical Perspectives Tours
• Ghost Walks & Dark History Tours
• Cycling Tour
• Walking Tour of Historical James Street
• Workers Arts & Heritage Walking Tour
• Hamilton Food Walking Tours
• Self Guided Walks (Waterfall focus)

Hamilton Wineries, Breweries & Spirits (more in Niagara)

• Ridge Road Estate Winery (wine tasting & sales)
• Puddicombe Farm & Winery (tours, farm, wine & cider tastings, sales)
• Central Valley Winery (sales)
• Collective Arts Brewing (micro-brewery, tasting & sales)
• Forty Creek Distillery (whisky, spirits & Appleton bottling)

Historic Sites

• Dundurn Castle
• Whitehern House & Museum
• Battlefield House
• Fieldcote Museum
• Griffin House
• Museum of Steam & Technology
• Erland Lee Museum (home of the Women’s Institute)
• The Hermitage (via the Hermitage Trail)
• Westfield Heritage Centre

Activities & Destinations of Interest

• Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
• HMCS Haida
• The Hamiltonian Sightseeing Boat Tour
• African Lion Safari
• Tim Horton’s Store #1 Store & Museum (old & new)
• McMaster University
• Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts
• Centre for Print and Media Arts

Art Galleries

• Art Gallery of Hamilton
• McMaster Museum of Art
• Carnegie Gallery
• Gallery on the Bay
• Earls Court Gallery
• Workers Arts & Heritage Centre

Casinos Trips

• Casino Niagara (daily bus departure)
• Fallsview Casino (multiple daily bus departures)
• Flamboro Downs (courtesy shuttle with daily departures)

Nature & Walking Destinations

• Self Guided Walks (Waterfall focus)
• Royal Botanical Gardens
• Pier 4 Park & Pier 4 Park Trail
• Bayfront Park
• Hamilton Waterfront Trail, Cootes-Waterfront Trail & Princess Point
• Escarpment Stairs & more (Chedoke, Dundurn, James, Wentworth and Kenilworth Stairs )
• Bruce Trail – local section

Waterfalls

• Map of Hamilton’s Waterfalls
• Spencer Gorge & Webster’s Falls
• Sherman Falls
• Chedoke Falls
• Cliffview Falls
• Princess Falls
• Scenic Falls
• Buttermilk Falls
• Westbound Falls
• Albion Falls
• Devil’s Punch Bowl & Stoney Creek Falls

Food & Shopping

• Lloyd D. Jackson Square
• Hamilton Farmers’ Market
• Hess Village
• James Street North
• Locke Street
• Ottawa Street & Ottawa Street Farmers’ Market
• Downtown Dundas
• Westdale Village

May in the City

• Bastien Boat Exhibit (Feb 2 – June 19), Steam & Technology Museum
• Cirque du Soleil’s Toruk – The First Flight (May 20 – 22), First Ontario Centre