From Fort Niagara, You Can See Toronto—and Sometimes the Northern Lights

Image of Toronto from the United States near Fort Niagara.

From Fort Niagara, You Can See Toronto—and Sometimes the Northern Lights

Stand on the edge of Old Fort Niagara at night, and you’ll find a view that’s quietly extraordinary.

Across the dark expanse of Lake Ontario, just beyond the reach of waves and war-era cannon, you can often see the soft, glowing outline of Toronto’s skyline. It’s over 30 miles away, but on a clear evening, especially in late fall or early spring, the lights shimmer faintly across the water like a distant mirage—a reminder of just how close Canada truly is. It looks like a glittering Oz at night!

But the view doesn’t end there.

Lake Ontario is over 800 feet deep and connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the St. Lawrence River.

Thanks to the low light pollution on Ontario’s northern shoreline, the skies above the lake can come alive with something even more rare: the Northern Lights.

It doesn’t happen every night—but when solar activity is strong and the sky is clear, waves of green and purple shimmer silently over the water. And here, at this historic crossroads of empire, where French, British, and American forces once battled for control, you can now look across time and space—and into the stars.

From the crumbling stone walls of Fort Niagara, you’re not just standing on the edge of a country—you’re standing at the edge of two worlds: the past, and the eternal sky above.

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Ice on the wall at Fort Niagara over looking the massive Lake Ontario.