Winter Fun

Year-round guided tours and educational workshops based in Prince Edward County, Ontario and the Quinte / Great Lakes Region. Photography, nature hikes, adventure sports, fitness, birding, sustainable living skills, growing food, historic sites, bicycling, kayak, canoe, camping, weekend retreats, environmental speakers, travel slideshows. Check website for schedule.

Sandbanks has approximately 10 km of cross country ski trails. These trails are excellent for both beginners and experienced skiers provided there are good snow conditions. The majority of the trails consist of gentle slopes and curves. Combining several of the trails or loops will allow skiers to set their own lengths. Please note there is no guarantee that trails will be groomed or track set as this is dependent on snow conditions and weather permitting. For more information, please contact the park office telephone: 613-393-3319 ext. 0 Macaulay Mountain Conservation area is also an ideal spot for cross-country skiing and tobogganing. Macaulay Mountain Conservation Area has 11 km of trails available for cross-country skiing. The Millennium Trail, which runs from Picton to the west end of the County, is also popular.  Trails are not groomed.  

Prince Edward Fitness & Aquatic Centre (PEFAC) PEFAC is a not-for profit organization run by a volunteer Board of Directors. PEFAC’s vision is to keep our community active and healthy. We promise to work hard and continue to supply our community with an aquatic and fitness facility that provides  recreational, physical, therapeutic and social opportunities for all ages and abilities. Children & Youth Programs include: Tap/Jazz Dance Sport and Swim Dash and Splash Gym and Swim Babysitting Course Camps/PD Days Programs include: Aquatic programs Public swimming Personal fitness Squash Group fitness

The Picton Pirates are a Canadian Junior ice hockey team based in Picton, Ontario. They play in the Empire B Junior C Hockey League of the Ontario Hockey Association. Prince Edward Community Centre located at 375 Main Street is where the Picton Pirates play their home games. Nicknamed the “Patcheyes”, the Picton Pirates were founded in 1989 as members of the Eastern Ontario Junior C Hockey League. Picton recently won the 2011 Empire “B” Junior C Championship. In the spring of 2013, The Pirates became just the seventh team from Eastern Ontario since the 1930s to win the Ontario Hockey Association’s Schmalz Cup, emblematic of Junior C supremacy in the province. (Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_County,_Ontario.)

A hockey club for players aged 15 to 20, playing in the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A league. Every season for the past dozen years the Wellington Dukes have finished at, or near the top of the II-tier league. “Parents of hockey-playing kids all over Ontario compete to send their kids to try out for the Dukes. Players aspiring for hockey scholarships to American universities, vie to play for the Dukes…”  (reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_County,_Ontario.) Wellington was chosen to host the 2014 Dudley-Hewitt Cup at their new arena.