Trent-Severn Waterway Cruising Times & Distances

Peterborough to Kingston

Day 1

  • 30 minutes: Holiday Inn – Lock 19 (*)
  • 5 hours: Lock 19 – Hastings
  • 2 hours: Hastings – Healey Falls
  • 10 minutes: Lock 17 & 16 – Lock 15

Day 2

  • 25 minutes: Lock 15 – Crowe Bay
  • 20 minutes: Crowe Bay – Campbellford
  • 15 minutes: Campbellford – Town Dock
  • 20 minutes: Town Dock – Ranney Falls – Lock 11 & 12
  • 25 minutes: Ranney Falls – Haigues Reach
  • 15 minutes: Haigues Reach – Meyers
  • 15 minutes: Meyers – Percy Reach
  • 1 hr. 30 min.: Percy Reach – Glenn Ross
  • 50 minutes: Glenn Ross – Frankford
  • 15 minutes: Frankford – Trent

Day 3

  • 15 minutes: Trent – Batawa
  • 20 minutes: Batawa – Glenn Miller
  • 10 minutes: Glenn Miller – Sydney
  • 10 minutes: Sydney – Trenton Lock 1
  • 20 minutes: Trenton Lock 1 – Fraser Park
  • 5 hr. 15 min.: Fraser Park – Picton

Day 4

  • 7 hr. 30 min.: Picton – Gananoque

Day 5

  • 6 hr. 30 min.: Gananoque – Kingston

Kingston to Peterborough

Day 1

  • 7 hours: Kingston – Gananoque

Day 2

  • 10 hours: Gananoque – Trenton

Day 3

  • 30 minutes: Trenton – Lock 1
  • 5 minutes: Lock 1 – Sydney
  • 15 minutes: Sydney – Glenn Miller
  • 20 minutes: Glenn Miller – Batawa
  • 10 minutes: Batawa – Trent
  • 10 minutes: Trent – Frankford
  • 1 hour: Frankford – Glenn Ross
  • 2 hours: Glenn Ross – Percy Reach
  • 15 minutes: Percy Reach – Meyers
  • 15 minutes: Meyers – Haigues
  • 25 minutes: Haigues – Ranney Falls – Lock 11 & 12
  • 15 minutes: Ranney Falls – Campbellford Town Dock

Day 4 (11am departure)

  • 25 minutes: Town Dock – Campbellford
  • 20 minutes: Campbellford – Crowe Bay
  • 30 minutes: Crowe Bay – Healey Falls Lock
  • 10 minutes: Lock 15 – Lock 16 & 17
  • 2 hours: Lock 16 & 17 – Hastings

Day 5

  • 5 hr. 35 min.: Hastings – Lock 19 (*)
  • 25 minutes: Lock 19 – P.T.B.O. Holiday Inn

Kingston to Ottawa

Day 1

  • 1 hour: Kingston – Kingston Mills (4)
  • 1 hr. 40 min.: Kingston Mills – Lower Brewers
  • 30 minutes: Lower Brewers – Upper Brewers (2 locks)
  • 2 hours: Upper Brewers – Jones Falls (4)

Day 2

  • 50 minutes: Jones Falls – Davis
  • 30 minutes: Davis – Chaffey’s
  • 1 hour: Chaffey’s – Newboro
  • 1 hour: Newboro – Westport
  • 2 hour stop
  • 1 hour: Westport – Narrows
  • 3 hr. 15 min.: Narrows – Poonamalie

Day 3

  • 30 minutes: Poonamalie – Detached
  • 10 minutes: Detached – Combined
  • Stay at Smiths Falls until noon
  • 15 minutes: Combined – Old Slys (2 locks)
  • 25 minutes: Old Slys – Edmunds
  • 40 minutes: Edmunds – Kilmarnock
  • 1 hr 20 min.: Kilmarnock – Merrickville

Day 4

  • approx. 30 min.: Top Merrickville – Bottom (3)
  • 25 minutes: Merrickville – Clowes
  • 10 minutes: Clowes – Upper Nicolson
  • 5 minutes: U. Nicolson – L. Nicolson
  • 35 minutes: L. Nicolson – Burritts R.
  • 3½ hours: Burritts Rapids – Long Isl. (3)
  • 30 minutes to go thru locks

Day 5

  • 50 minutes: Long Island – Black Rapids
  • 45 minutes: Black Rapids – Hogs Back
  • 30 minutes: Hogs Back – Hartwells

Ottawa to Kingston

Day 1

  • 20 minutes: Hartwells – Hogs Back
  • 40 minutes: Hogs Back – Black Rapids
  • 50 minutes: Black Rapids – Long Isl. (3)
  • 4 hours: Long Island – Burritts R.

Day 2

  • 40 minutes: Burritts – Lower Nicolsons
  • 10 minutes: Lower Nicolsons – Upper Nicolsons
  • 5 minutes: Upper Nicolsons – Clowes
  • 20 minutes: Clowes – Merrickville (3)
  • Stay in Merrickville until noon
  • 1 hr. 30 min.: Merrickville – Kilmarnock
  • 50 minutes: Kilmarnock – Edmunds
  • 25 minutes: Edmunds – Old Slys (2)
  • 10 minutes: Old Slys – Combined

Day 3

  • 10 minutes: Combined – Detached
  • 30 minutes: Detached – Poonamalie
  • 3 hr. 45 min.: Poonamalie – Narrows
  • 55 minutes: Narrows – Westport

Day 4

  • 1 hr 5 min.: Westport – Newboro
  • 1 hour: Newboro – Chaffey’s
  • 30 minutes: Chaffey’s – Davis
  • 50 minutes: Davis – Jones Falls (4)
  • 1.5 hours to go thru locks

Day 5

  • 1 hr. 45 min.: Jones Falls – Upper Brewers (2 locks)
  • 15 minutes: Upper Brewers – Lower Brewers
  • 1 hr. 45 min.: Lower Brewers – Kingston Mills (4 locks)
  • 1 hour: Kingston Mills – Kingston

Big Chute to Peterborough

Day 1

  • Leave Big Chute approx 9:30
  • 1 hr. 15 min.: Big Chute – Swift Rapids
  • 2 hr. 15 min.: Swift Rapids – Couchiching
  • 2 hours: Couchiching – Orillia

Day 2

  • 3 hours: Orillia – Gamebridge (*)
  • 10 minutes: Gamebridge – Thorah (*)
  • 10 minutes: Thorah – Portage (*)
  • 25 minutes: Portage – Talbot (*)
  • 15 minutes: Talbot – Bolsover (*)
  • 2 hours: Bolsover – Kirkfield

Day 3

  • 2 hrs 30 min.: Kirkfield – Rosedale
  • 30 minutes: Rosedale – Fenelon Falls (*)
  • 2 hrs 30 min.: Fenelon Falls – Bobcaygeon

Day 4

  • 2 hrs 40 min.: Bobcaygeon – Buckhorn (*)
  • 50 minutes: Buckhorn – Lovesick (*)
  • 20 minutes: Lovesick – Burleigh Falls (*)
  • 1 hour 30 min: Burleigh Falls – Young’s Point
  • 1 hr 5 min.: Young’s Point – Lakefield

Day 5

  • 15 minutes: Lock 26 – Lock 25 (*)
  • 10 minutes: Lock 25 – Lock 24 (*)
  • 15 minutes: Lock 24 – Lock 23 (*)
  • 10 minutes: Lock 23 – Lock 22 (*)
  • 45 minutes: Lock 22 – Lock 21 (*)
  • 10 minutes: Lock 21 – Lock 20 (*)
  • 20 minutes: Lock 20 – Holiday Inn

Peterborough to Big Chute

Day 1

  • 10 minutes: PTBO Holiday Inn – PTBO Marina
  • 30 minutes: PTBO Marina – Lock 20 (*)
  • 10 minutes: Lock 20 – Liftlock
  • 50 minutes: Liftlock – Lock 22 (*)
  • 15 minutes: Lock 22 – Lock 23 (*)
  • 15 minutes: Lock 23 – Lock 24 (*)
  • 15 minutes: Lock 24 – Lock 25 (*)
  • 20 minutes: Lock 25 – Lock 26 (*)
  • 1 hour: Lock 26 – Young’s Point
  • 1 hour 30 min: Young’s Point – Burleigh Falls (*)
  • 20 minutes: Burleigh Falls – Lovesick (*)
  • 50 minutes: Lovesick – Buckhorn (*)

Day 2

  • 2 hr. 30 min.: Buckhorn – Bobcaygeon
  • 2 hr. 15 min.: Bobcaygeon – Fenelon Falls (*)
  • 40 minutes: Fenelon Falls – Rosedale
  • 2 hr. 30 min.: Rosedale – Kirkfield

Day 3

  • 1 hr. 30 min.: Kirkfield – Bolsover (*)
  • 10 minutes: Bolsover – Talbot (*)
  • 25 minutes: Talbot – Portage (*)
  • 10 minutes: Portage – Thorah (*)
  • 10 minutes: Thorah – Gamebridge (*)
  • 3 hours: Gamebridge – Orillia

Day 4

  • Leave Orillia at Noon
  • 2 hr. 30 min.: Orillia – Couchiching
  • 1 hr. 10 min.: Couchiching – Port Stanton

Day 5

  • 1 hr 55 min.: Port Stanton – Swift Rapids
  • 1 hr. 30 min.: Swift Rapids – Big Chute