Uxbridge: Music, Historic Trails and Park Loops

Uxbridge offers different options for planning a trip: culture in the town centre and outdoor trails. If you’re looking for a hotel in Uxbridge, you can first consider whether a performance, a walk or getting active on the trails will shape your stay. The distances and duration of one of the walks also provide concrete points of reference for planning your day.

Culture and Historic Destinations in the Town Centre

Uxbridge Music Hall is located in the town centre and hosts live productions. Its program includes musicals, plays, stand-up comedy, concerts and dance performances. If a performance is important to your trip, check the event date against your travel dates before booking.

The Historical Sights Walk passes through residential neighbourhoods and Uxbridge’s historic town centre. It features 37 points of interest, is 4.5 kilometres long and takes two hours. This gives you both a distance and a time frame to plan around for this walk. The Historic Trail is shorter at 2.5 kilometres; the Historical Sights Walk covers a different distance, at 4.5 kilometres.

Trails of Different Lengths

The Historic Trail is an easy, 2.5-kilometre trail. You can plan to cycle, walk your dog, walk or run on it. These listed activities give the trail a different focus from the Historical Sights Walk, which passes through residential neighbourhoods and the historic town centre. You can compare the shorter trail with the two-hour walk using the stated distances and duration.

Elgin Park has six kilometres of marked trails. These include a 0.5-kilometre fitness loop, a 0.75-kilometre park loop and a 1.3-kilometre loop around Elgin Pond. The loops therefore differ considerably in length: the fitness loop is the shortest, and the loop around Elgin Pond is the longest. The park loop falls between the two. This gives you specific options if you want to factor the length of a loop into your plans.

Bridge and Lookout

The Trestle Bridge Trail crosses the Uxbridge Trestle Bridge. The Toronto-Nipissing Railway built the bridge in 1872. This connects the trail to a structure with a specific construction date. The Historic Trail also features Rotary Lookout, a lookout deck above Elgin Pond. These details identify two distinct landmarks: the historic bridge on the Trestle Bridge Trail and the lookout on the Historic Trail.

Planning Guidance

The official trail map shows the main trails accessible from the walkable town centre. As the map may be updated, check the available version when planning. For hotel and trip planning, you can consider the options separately: a performance is a possible reason to visit with a specific event date, while the trails differ in their listed activities and distances—and, in the case of the Historical Sights Walk, its two-hour duration. This helps you choose the focus of your stay based on the activities you actually want to plan.

For the broader travel overview: Durham Regional Municipality.