Pelham.

Pelham sits on the Fonthill Kame, the highest point of land in the Niagara Region — a glacial sand-and-gravel hill that lifts the village of Fonthill above the wine-country plain to the north. The town runs through five historic hamlets — Fonthill, Fenwick, Ridgeville, Effingham, and North Pelham — across rolling Carolinian country south of the Niagara Escarpment.

Most of Short Hills Provincial Park, the largest provincial park in the Niagara Region (660.55 ha, more than 23 km of trails through Carolinian forest along the Twelve Mile Creek headwaters), sits inside Pelham, with trailhead access on Pelham Road, Roland Road, and Cataract Road. The Niagara Bruce Trail Club routes the Bruce Trail through the park, and the Steve Bauer Trail — a rail-trail along the former Niagara, St.

Catharines and Toronto commuter line — runs south from Fonthill toward Welland. North of Fonthill, the Comfort Maple on Metler Road is widely held to be one of the oldest sugar maples in Canada.

Pelham is a short drive from St. Catharines and Welland and a few hours from the GTA via the major Niagara highway corridor.