Port Colborne.

Port Colborne is the Lake Erie end of the Welland Canal — a small Niagara city built around the canal mouth, where freighters transit Lock 8 (the longest lock on the Welland Canal / St. Lawrence Seaway system) on their way between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

The City's lakefront strings HH Knoll Lakeview Park, the canal-mouth piers, the Sugarloaf Marina basin (widely described as one of the largest freshwater marinas on the Great Lakes), and Nickel Beach — a Lake Erie sand beach east of the canal — together along a flat shoreline. Port Colborne is the Lake Erie terminus of the Welland Canals Parkway Trail and the southern anchor of the roughly 140-kilometre Greater Niagara Circle Route.

The Port Colborne Historical & Marine Museum and the annual Canal Days Marine Heritage Festival on the Civic Holiday weekend run the canal-heritage programming. Roughly an hour from Hamilton and an hour and a half from the GTA via the QEW and the Niagara highway grid.