Reviews of Trent-Severn Waterway, Peterborough Lift Lock Visitor Centre (Tourist Attraction)

Carlos Quintana

Impresive!!. Very muuuucho ahead from its time.

Neil Barker

Excellent small museum that explains the history and technical side of how the Lift Lock operates. Free admission.

Andyman4hire

(Translated) Locks are cool off (Original) Locks are cool af

Brigitte Robichaud

Very cool to see and had a lovely picnic in the park. Kids loved it.

Dale M

Great historical video on the locks of the Trent Severn waterways.

Kim Macdonald

Offered interactive free activities for kids, some excellent historical static displays explaining the lift lock development and construction. Nice little movie about the Trent-Severn construction. Staff were very friendly and informed.

readontheroad

We stopped while enroute through the locks in our boat. Excellent small museum explaining the history and operation of the locks. We stocked gift shop that was able to sell us the Ports guise we could obtain no-where else (as well as some nice gifts) Friendly and well-informed staff. Excellent stop

Milena Weinberg

Friendly and knowledgeable staff. Kid-Friendly activities. Great place for family visit.

Indu Sehmby

Good fun

David Yip

Very rare type of log

Courtney Ferren

It's really nice to walk down to the Lift Locks and watch them go up and down a few times. Beautiful area on the Trent Canal and a nice historic piece of Peterborough

Les Sherratt

A must stop

David Ng

A nice place to go during summer and fall time

Senior “Danno” GuyMan

The highest elevation in all of Peterborough makes this vista a beauty. With lots of people ice skating and enjoying our awesome city it is definitely a must see.

rajendra patel

Good to see once

Ken Wong

Great experience kayaking the lift lock. Launched our kayaks at the park and paddled over. The staff at the visitor center and the lift lock itself are very polite, informative and helpful.

Hex Decimal

Great view

Bruce coonan

Very unique set of lock on the Trent Severna waterway

igarage markham

Very informational and washrooms are very clean

Shane Elahi

Fantastic place to spend the day with family and friends

John Lyons

Great staff. Lots to learn. Amazing to watch.

Michael Forint

Amazing feat of engineering. Largest lift locks in the world.

Gary Walters

Have had family and friends with me to explain the Lift Lock operation. Very educational!

jiang maimei

Like it

Wynneth

It's too bad that we got here too late to go in the Visitor's Centre and educate ourselves about the lift lock as well as seeing the lift lock in action. We just admired from afar haha. We took the stairs to the top of the lift lock and found a helpful signboard explaining how the lift lock works as well as several interesting facts. I'd like to see the lift lock in action one day.

Sada Shiva Shankar Ramini

Pleasant and must see place to visit in Peterborough!!

Dewan Karim

Amazing structure and water features in a mid-sized city. Trails along the way is turely peaceful and calm place. Boat tour along trent-severn waterway is equally remarkable.

nitin khandelwal

Its a great place for every age group. A must visit for someone who wants to see a good Canadian small city. The ferry ride is must.

Isana B

The staff could have been more helpful assisting boaters tying up in the lock. Look for example at Kirkfield lift lock.

Fenil Rahul Balar

historic and beautiful place

Carlin Brady

Never been in the visitor centre but I grow up near the lock and been up and down it. I also learn to skate under it.

Shaquille Young (Shaderry)

One of the most amazing places to go if you love seeing history in action. The guides there are helpful and my wife and I found out that you can camp there for a small fee! It's a must stop see if you're nearby.

Lukas Knöpfel

Grandiose technique

Jessica Priddle

Beautiful place to visit and very educational.

Alan Bartholomew

Beautiful place for a walk, the museum is interesting to look around.

Sarah Kamerman

Awesome place to visit. Lots of educational opportunities for the kids and adults.

M D

One of the greatest waterways structures, that was the # one in the world for years. It works using water and gravity , the best practical example of the Lift Lock is a Seasaw ! You can find many good videos online about how a lift lock works, but remember do not mix the lift lock with Lock !!!!! The Peterborough Lift Lock , has a great picnic area around the lift lock, very good visitor centre with great services, also there is a two hours cruise that passes through the lift lock. If you like engineering structures, do not miss this !!!!!

MICHELLE CERQUA

I came here for a special event complete with a dinner under the lock and it was one of the best experiences I've ever had!

Philip Smith

Grease monkeys love it.

Steve Evans

Visit 2wice a year consistently.

Chen Xiaomei

(Translated) really beautiful (Original) 真的很美

JASPREET SANGHA

Good 1

Dave Cochlin

Very interesting

Ofer Livni

Amazing Engineering

Sandy Wu

This is a special scenery. It forms part of Ontario history. Worth a visit.

Kelly O'Connor

It's so much larger in person than it looks in pictures.

Lori Bassett

Very enjoyable experience. The big kids and the little ones all thought it was amazing to watch the lock lift the boats up and down. Very knowledgeable staff in the center.

Melissa M

Great place. The visitor centre is closing in the fall though. So sad to see it go.

Sky Lisette

Beautiful historic liftlocks on the edge of East City are what define that this is Peterborough. The largest piston lift lock in Canada!

Alex Drozwik

I Am Planning On Flying Every Lock In The System

Wai Chan

Great view of boats using the lift locks thru the canal.

Denise McCallum

It's an amazing site to see when the boats come in. Absolutely facinating. The grounds are neat and well kept and the staff are fantastic! Loved it!

Charles McGeoghan

If you have not experienced the Peterborough lift locks, this is the way to do it!

Jason Huang

Good place to enjoy it with families

Christopher Murray

Very cool piece of architecture. One of eight lift locks in the world. This one states that it is the tallest. Don't just walk around at the bottom. Be sure to explore all the stairs and go up to the top. It's totally worth it. There are historic signs posted that help you appreciate it for what it is. Definitely a must stop place.

Kelley Bailey

Very nice place clean and well kept, the grounds that is......

Tammy Bishop

A beautiful place for a picnic. We were joined by a lovely pair of ducks who ate from my hand and a gull with a taste for jalapenos.

Penny Stock Whispers

Love it here. Great for walks!

Ed M

World's highest Lift Lock was fascinating.

Tony Kwan

Was nice. Just walked around and saw several families set up a small BBQ picnic. Would go again if in the neighborhood.

Joseph Hamilton

This was a stop along our bike tour. There are free parking spaces on the road near the locks but it costs to use the ones at the centre.. Public bathrooms were clean and nice. The locks are an amazing feat of human ingenuity and very worth seeing There are paid boat tours available but we didn't do that with our bikes. Instead, we biked the paved trails, starting from here, to Trent University. It was a great trip of about 20K all together with a stop near the end for lunch and drinks at the Ale House which was awesome.

The Vokeys

Lift lock an amazing piece of engineering. The visitor center exhibits are interesting and educational.

Meredith Blunt

Really impressive and great surrounding park.

Michelle Rakowski

Fabulous and Impressive. I like to take my guests from other countries here.

Ketan “Ketan” Patel

Good engineering masterpiece to visit.

Chris Empey

Technological wonder

John Armstrong

I had wanted to visit the lift locks ever since I was a kid. My parents drove us through Peterborough every year but never stopped over. Now at the ripe old age of 71, I finally made it. These are the highest lift locks in the world. They have a very nice visitor centre with friendly informative staff.

ryan hart

Beautiful park surrounding the largest hydraulic lift locks in the world. Built over one hundred years ago this is a functioning piece of Canadian history.

Cynthia Yi-Hsuan Lin

Very special historical construction

Carla Sheedy

Beautiful place, especially in the fall. Locks shut down for the winter after Thanksgiving weekend but still beautiful place to walk around.

Ewa Romanowicz

Worth visiting this world tallest marvel of technology.

Ronald P

Marvellous engineering, a hidden jewel.

Jagdish Patel

good place to visit

Sonnam N

Enjoyed the movie which let us know more about the history for liftlock. A very informative location

Jackie Douglas

Interesting and famous lift lock.

Aman Sangwan

Awesome

Carmel Barnes

Cool

Yineng Wang

(Translated) Very educational for kids. (Original) Very aducational for kids.

Bob Barrie

Visit June 26, 2018. Nice visitors centre and park area around this fascinating structure and marvel of engineering. Trent-Severn waterway Lock #21 is uplifting. Great spot for a picnic or moving a marine vessel up or down 19.8 meters.

Brian Cote

Amazing Engineering marvel. Cool thing to see and understand how it works. Great explanation inside the visitor center.

Imthiaz Ahamed

Nice scenery

J.P. Turner

It has its ups and downs.

Kristina Lowes

Watch for the Haunting lmao

Jordi Martori

Doing the lift lock boat tour is worth it! It is quite impressive to be on the lock as it goes up!

Chris Quarrie

Great centre, everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the Lift Lock

Snehal Pandya

Its an amazing experience to go on the canal on a small boat and then experience the lift lock lifting hour boat to a height of 65 feet and then carry forward with the journey. Incredible piece of engineering going back a century.

Our World

Nice place and the town

Unni James

Great place to visit. one of the highest Lift Lock. a walk or drive by the canal is beautiful

Janine Simpson

Beautiful grounds lots of trees. My favorite Oaks are here! Watched the Lock move upward with boats in!

Musa Ahmed

Great place to enjoy the fall color of you can visit at the right time

Andre Zhang

I love this place! There is a small and free museum and film, with helpful staff and there was a free Canada Day cake! The lift lock is really cool, super fast and awesome, and the film and staff really teach you how it works.

Hardik Joshi

Nice place. Had fun

John Chance

Seemed like a cool place but the visitor center was closed for the season.

Bale Luna

Great and impressive place!

Kathleen Sidenblad

Really interesting and unusual type of lock. Twin elevators!

Fred Layton

A Have to for Canadian enthusiast, the Highest Lock in the world..... pretty amazing but don't take my word for it, Look it up for yourself And you Decide

Trevor Hotte

All such friendly people!

Jorge Mori

A must see if you go to Peterborough

Judy Jin

???????? Happy Canada Day! ????????

Serana Banana

Cool engineering marvel. Worth a peak ????

Jenny Hall

So cool. Even got to see it work while we were there.

Jeniffer Vieira

Visited here last year.. Got dizzy at the top it's so high

Paul Gent

Great park

Em Chen

This is a fantastic little attraction for only $2 parking/attendance fee. There is a small museum and the chance to see the lift lock in person from multiple vantage points. Would highly recommend as a small attraction to visit en route to somewhere else.

Dominic Wong

Nice place to visit

Suzanne Schperl

It was awesome because the lock lift is the highest in the world

Mel R.

Anabelle showed us around and it was a great experience, she's really good at what she does. overall 10/10

Norman de Bellefeuille

Engineering marvel.

dAVE Mayo

We went there for the lock and paddle event. It was a lot of fun. Hundreds of canoes and kayaks filling up the two tubes. We then had some butter tarts, went for a tour at the museum then stopped off at a chip stand for Poutine. Very Canadian day.

Troy Brace

Awesome feat of engineering

art Mayo

Excellent

Robert Slater

Such an interesting this to see

Jason Medd

This was a surprising treat when I visited Peterborough. You don't really hear about it as a tourist but it's a wonderful feat of engineering of the time. The fact it's still functional is a testament that they built things to last. Definitely check it out.

Moto Rola

Great Engineering Building.

Andrew Strutton

Watching the entire lock lift itself is pretty impressive and if you like engineering,mechanics or just seeing how things work I'd say that this a good idea for fathers day. An even better idea is to leave the wife and kids at home they'd only get bored and spoil it for you with all the noise and smells.

K R

The people were helpful and there was a small exhibit to explain how the locks work. When the locks were about to go up and down an alarm would sound so you could be ready to take photos.

ForeverFarming

Excellent free place to enjoy with the family

JOHN SONN

Very informative.

Guangzhi

(Translated) The result of human intelligence. (Original) 人类聪明才智的成果。

Wanna go For a rip bud

Professional ,courteous , and so much fun lockmasters are the best . Keep up the great work.

Benj blanco

it was one of the extra ordinary place you didnt know exist.

John Tickle

Great place to visit..

Bradley Stewart

I got a tour of the lift locks and it was awesome.

Javier Teo

Small but informative centre. There is a mini movie hall where the staff will play a short video that briefly explains the history of the Trent-Severn waterway - how it was conceived and how it was progressively constructed until completion. You can also learn about how the Peterborough Lift Lock (aka Lock 21 which is one the highest, if not the highest, lift locks in the world) functions. Its massive 2.0m diameter water pistons are pretty impressive. After that, you can take a quick stroll out to the see the lift lock in the flesh. You can climb two flights of stairs up to the upper level if you like. I managed to observe the lift lock in action. It takes about 10 to 15 minutes for the entire procedure.

Jody Mitchell

An old-timey engineering marvel!

Christina Brinklow

Really interesting and well maintained place! Parks Canada has a building beside the lift locks, full of historical information. There is a little movie theater, a museum, and staff available for any questions you might have. There is also a washroom! Surrounded by well maintained public areas, it's a nice place for a picnic... at the very least. If you're lucky, you'll get to see the locks in action as boats traveling up and down the river use the locks...as they were when they were first engineered and built! Apparently there are only 8 of these locks in the world! Kids and adults alike will learn and enjoy visiting here! There is also a gift shop.

Doug Hilborn

Sat at watched from two red Muskoka chairs.

Elizabeth Kieffer

Fun to watch it in use in the summer, and in the winter it's a great place to skate!

Niel John

Interesting place to visit and explore.

Terry Greencorn

It was awesome

rdvqc

Finally caught it in operation. Amazing engineering!

Jayne Zavitski

Staff were very friendly and very helpful. Lots of information on the lift locks in this visitors center. Nice well gift store also.

Ruan Marcus

Very impressive to see. Only need around 30 minutes to visit and see everything

Rob&Janique McDougall

Great captain and host

terrence pinto

One of the few lift lock systems in the world. A must visit place. There is a park in the vicinity as well

samson tam

A nice place to relax

Nareshkumar Maheshkumar

Amazing architecture

Mahalingam Kumarakuladervan

Must see for children

Leo H

Great place for a hike and photography

Andrea Tait

Great tour

Yesenia Ramos

Amazing !!

Ned Foley

To bad they are moving.

James Mace

Bsautiful and clean area. Stadf is friendly and helpfull. Great for a day trip

Urs Schaller

(Translated) Impressive structure to see interesting in operation. (Original) Imposantes Bauwerk interessant im Betrieb zu sehen.

andrea albertson

Alsome

Eric Larivee

(Translated) Incredible and friendly welcome! (Original) Incroyable et accueil sympathique!

TV BOX

One of the spot you must stop in Peterborough.

Erik Kowal

Remarkable place

Jose Dias

The museum of the construction was interesting but small. I wish there had been tours or other insights into the lock operations.

Atefeh

Very intresting place

Scott Hansen

The locks impressed me nearly as much as when I first saw them as a five-year-old, and the staff all seemed friendly. A nice-looking model lock was broken, but the visitors' centre seemed in generally good repair.

Brad Green

Amazing

Chris

Really a great place to visit. Impressive engineering.

Charlene Gillam

Nice displays and information about the lock

Dave Cavanagh

Skating and trout derby is awesome

Stephen Kentish

Very interesting!!

JEFF BOKMA

Amazing historical site.

Ryan Bissonnette

An amazing part of Ontario history

MHD

Clean washrooms. Helpful staff.

Jerry Bokser

Impressive engineering

thangamuthu s

it was a massive one built on moss concrete without any steel reinforcement. have enjoyed visit.The guide's briefing was more informative

Cheryl LeBlanc

Excellent information on the lock system . Whee it starts and ends. How it works. Friendly staff ready to answer any questions.

Michael Edwards

Big boats, little boats. All good on a sunny day.

Michael Ord

Cool

Martin Peterson

Fun times with the family

Caloy

Amazing lift lock

Marco Hasenfratz

Great experience!!

Andy Gomez

(Translated) It's a great engineering work, you have to see it (Original) Es una gran obra de ingeniería, tienen que verla