Find a tourism board in Ontario, Quebec or the U.S. Northeast

When you’re planning a road trip in Ontario, Quebec or the U.S. Northeast, it can be tricky knowing where to start your research. Of course, I always recommend this Ottawa Road Trips website as a great starting point, but local tourism boards and business associations are also great sources of information. They often have event calendars, maps, downloadable visitor guides, and links to attractions and accommodations.

Here are some of the sites I consult regularly. Note that the names of communities in parentheses are just some of the places these organizations represent, just to give you an idea of the general region you’re looking at!

Ottawa-Gatineau tourism boards

• Ottawa Tourism
• Tourisme Outaouais

Eastern Ontario tourism boards

• South Eastern Ontario (formerly called The Great Waterway, this is a regional site covering a number of regions between Prince Edward County and Cornwall)
• Ontario’s Highlands Tourism Organization (another regional site covering a large area west and southwest of Ottawa, including Lanark County, Frontenac County and the Ottawa Valley)
• Lanark County Tourism (Almonte, Carleton Place, Perth, Pakenham)
• Prescott-Russell Tourism (Casselman, Hawkesbury, Rockland, Russell, Vankleek Hill)
• Explore North Grenville (Kemptville, Oxford Mills, Burritt’s Rapids)
• Rideau Heritage Route (Kemptville, Smiths Falls, Westport)
• Cornwall Tourism
• Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry (Alexandria, Long Sault, Maxville, Morrisburg)
• Ottawa Valley Tourist Association (Arnprior, Barry’s Bay, Eganville, Renfrew, Pembroke)
• Downtown Pembroke

• Brockville Tourism
• Downtown Brockville
• 1000 Islands Tourism (Gananoque and beyond)
• Visit Kingston
• Lennox and Addington County (Kaladar, Napanee)
• Bay of Quinte (Belleville, Trenton)
• Visit Prince Edward County (Picton, Wellington)
• Peterborough and the Kawarthas (Bobcaygeon, Keene, Lakefield, Peterborough)

Other Ontario tourism boards

• Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership (entire province)
• Tourism Toronto
• Tourism Niagara
• Stratford Tourism
• Northeastern Ontario (North Bay, Sudbury, Timmins)
• Visit Northwest Ontario (Kenora, Thunder Bay)

Quebec tourism boards

• Québec Original (entire province)
• Pontiac Tourism (Fort-Coulonge, Ladysmith, Quyon, Shawville)
• Tourisme Laurentides (the Laurentians, including Mont-Tremblant, Saint-Adèle and Saint-Sauveur)
• Mont-Tremblant resort
• Tourisme Montréal
• Tourisme Laval
• Tourisme Lanaudière (Joliette, Repentigny)
• Tourism Eastern Townships (Eastman, Lac-Brome, Sutton)
• Quebec City Tourism
• Tourisme Charlevoix
• Quebec Maritime (regional site that includes much of the eastern St. Lawrence River, Gaspé and the Magdalen Islands)

New York state tourism boards

• New York State Travel (entire state)
• Thousand Islands Seaway Region (Alexandria Bay, Clayton, Oswego)
• Adirondacks Regional Tourism Council (Lake Placid, Ogdensburg, Plattsburgh)
• Visit Syracuse
• Oneida County Tourism (Rome, Utica)
• Experience Cortland
• Visit Ithaca
• Visit Rochester
• Visit Buffalo and Niagara Falls NY
• NYCgo (New York City)

New England tourism boards

• Discover New England (entire region)
• Travel Vermont
• Visit New Hampshire
• Visit Maine
• Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism
• Visit Connecticut
• Visit Rhode Island

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