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