Getting here
Getting to Clearview: a Highway 26 township under the escarpment
Clearview is reached the way southern Georgian Bay is reached: up Highway 400 to the Barrie side, or along Highway 26 through Stayner. The drive, the small airfields and the real gateway airport each get an honest paragraph here.
The ways in, each with its evidence
Clearview is a township in Simcoe County, Ontario, under the Niagara Escarpment south of Nottawasaga Bay: 556 square kilometres of farmland, river valleys and escarpment country holding eleven communities -- Stayner, the municipal seat; Creemore; New Lowell; Avening; Dunedin; Glen Huron; Singhampton; Duntroon; Nottawa; Brentwood and Cashtown Corners. The township office is the Administration Centre at 217 Gideon Street in Stayner (705-428-6230). The timezone is Eastern (America/Toronto). A Clearview trip is never one main street: it is a loop between communities, each a short country drive from the next.
By road, Stayner sits on Highway 26, the Collingwood-to-Barrie corridor road, with County Road 124 climbing south-west up the escarpment through Duntroon and Singhampton toward the Grey County line. There is no passenger rail station in the township on current published schedules. One bus fact is settled at county grade: Simcoe County LINX Route 2 (Wasaga Beach to Barrie) stops in Stayner at the Administration Centre on the operator's route material -- a county service, credited to the County. The township's own transit picture is a changing one -- a 2025 township study proposed route changes for spring 2026, so its current routes and fares are read on the township's own transit page, never frozen here. Winter driving under the escarpment is a planning fact: lake-effect snow off Georgian Bay closes Simcoe County roads in hard weather, and Ontario 511 is checked before any winter run.
The ways in, carded
By air, the seats stated plainly
the airport note, printed once, plainly: Clearview has no commercial airport, but it is not airfield-free -- two small general-aviation aerodromes sit in the township, Edenvale (CNV8) and Stayner (Clearview Field) (CLV2), neither with any scheduled service. The larger local field is Collingwood Regional (CNY3), seated in Collingwood; the regional field is Lake Simcoe Regional (CYLS) in Oro-Medonte; and the scheduled gateway is Toronto Pearson (YYZ). Each gets its full, seat-honest treatment on the airports page, on Worker F's T50 settlement.
By water, the note printed once
the boat note, printed once, plainly: Clearview is an inland township. No cruise ship calls here, no cruise departs here and there is no ferry. The Nottawasaga and Mad rivers are paddling and fishing water, not cruise water. This guide's cruises page settles the question honestly and points to the real boats -- in their own towns, as day trips.
By road, the spine
Highway 26 is the township's main street at county scale: Wasaga Beach to the north-east, Collingwood to the north-west, Barrie and Highway 400 to the south-east. County Road 124 is the escarpment climb; Airport Road and County Road 9 stitch the southern communities together.
Once you arrive
Inside the township, the community is the unit of movement: Stayner is walkable in its core -- arena, library, Station Park and Main Street chain on foot -- and every other stop is a short country drive. The escarpment walks are trailhead drives west on County Road 124. The day-trip towns are Highway 26 drives, each computed on this guide's day-trips pages.
The neighbours, named as themselves
Attribution is by seat, never by closeness: Collingwood to the north-west, Wasaga Beach to the north-east, The Blue Mountains to the west, and Springwater, Essa, Mulmur and Grey Highlands around the other borders are separate municipalities. Their beaches, ski hills, arenas and main streets are theirs, named as destinations when they appear, never absorbed. Two landscapes inside this township belong to bigger bodies and are credited to them every time: Devil's Glen is an Ontario Parks provincial park, and the Nottawasaga Bluffs are a Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority property. Simcoe County, seated in Midhurst, is the upper tier; its tourism and transit services are county services, credited to the County. The nearest full-service city is Barrie, south-east on the Highway 26 and 400 corridor -- its own city, with its own surfaces.
Common questions
What is the closest airport to Clearview?
The township's own small aerodromes come first: Edenvale Aerodrome (CNV8) and Stayner (Clearview Field) (CLV2), both general-aviation only. The larger local field is Collingwood Regional Airport (CNY3), seated in Collingwood; the regional field is Lake Simcoe Regional (CYLS) in Oro-Medonte; and the scheduled gateway is Toronto Pearson (YYZ). This guide's airports page gives each its full, seat-honest treatment.
How do you get to Clearview without a car?
With difficulty, honestly: there is no passenger rail station in the township, and local transit is in transition on the township's own study. County and intercity buses serve the corridor towns -- read the current grids with their operators and the township before planning around them.
Can you arrive in Clearview by boat?
No. Clearview is an inland township with no ferry, no marina port of entry and no cruise water. Its rivers are paddling and fishing water.
More to explore in Clearview
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