Burlington.

Burlington sits at the western end of Lake Ontario, on Burlington Bay, bridged to Hamilton by the Skyway. Downtown opens onto the lake at Spencer Smith Park, where the 137-metre Brant Street Pier walks you out over open water.

The Burlington-to-Hamilton waterfront trail rolls roughly 10 km along the Beach Strip — past Beachway Park's sand beach and across the Burlington Canal Lift Bridge — to Confederation Beach Park on the Hamilton side. North of the city, the Niagara Escarpment cuts through Burlington's rural edge and carries the Bruce Trail's Iroquoia section through the Royal Botanical Gardens Escarpment Property and the Kerncliff Park area on its way from Grimsby to Milton.

The Royal Botanical Gardens straddles the Burlington-Hamilton boundary at the head of Lake Ontario; the Burlington-side cultivated gardens — Hendrie Park, the RBG Centre, and Laking Garden — connect to the Hendrie Valley nature sanctuary along Grindstone Creek. The marquee Conservation Halton escarpment cluster — Mount Nemo, Rattlesnake Point, Crawford Lake, Hilton Falls — sits just next door in Milton.

Burlington itself is within the treaty lands and traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation; Halton Region and MCFN signed a formal Relationship Agreement in 2022.