Bancroft.

Bancroft sits on the York River where Highways 28 and 62 cross at the southern edge of the Canadian Shield, the regional service hub for North Hastings and self-styled Mineral Capital of Canada. Eagle's Nest Park rises directly above downtown off Hastings Street North, the Town-owned lookout where five named trails — Lookout, Hawkwatch Accessible, Granite, Gerry Whyte Plant Identification, and Christy — open onto panoramic views of the York River Valley.

The 156-kilometre Hastings Heritage Trail, the abandoned Central Ontario Railway corridor managed by the Eastern Ontario Trails Alliance, runs straight through downtown — past the Municipal Office and the CN Rock Pile, the in-town free-collecting site that anchors Bancroft's rockhounding identity. East along Highway 28, Egan Chutes Provincial Park (in Hastings Highlands, not within the town boundary) marks the start of the multi-day York River paddle to Conroy Marsh.

The Rockhound Gemboree — Canada's largest gem and mineral show, annual since 1963 — concentrates the year's flagship weekend into late July and early August.