Things to do

Things to do in Clearview

Things to do in Clearview split by altitude. Down on the flat, Stayner runs the township's everyday life: the arena, the library campus, Station Park and a main street that hosts the year's two big street nights. Up on the Niagara Escarpment, the walking is the attraction, at Devil's Glen Provincial Park and the Nottawasaga Bluffs Conservation Area, two protected properties that sit inside the township but answer to Ontario Parks and the conservation authority. And Creemore, the village in the township's south-east, has its own guide and its own list. Here is the standing offer at its published grade. Dated events live on the Events page.

Photos for Clearview are still on their way. Every listing below is real.

Station Park and downtown Stayner

Station Park, at 7259 Highway 26 in Stayner, is the township's front lawn: a downtown park that anchors the community calendar, the published gathering point for the Witches Walk in October and part of the Township's Music, Market and Park It programming alongside Ives Park. Between park dates it does the ordinary work of a village park, green space a short walk from Main Street's shops and the Stayner Community Centre campus. If you are passing through on Highway 26, this is the honest half-hour version of Clearview: park, main street, arena campus, and a sense of how the township actually fits together.

Devil's Glen Provincial Park

On County Road 124 near Glen Huron and Duntroon, Devil's Glen Provincial Park protects 60.19 hectares of Escarpment and Mad River valley: a recreational-class provincial park with a section of the Bruce Trail running through it. It is the township's most concentrated piece of Escarpment walking, river valley below and brow above. Ontario Parks governs the park: access, fees, rules and any programme are published on its own surface, and this guide freezes none of them and never presents the park as a Township facility. Go for the trail and the valley, and check the park's own page before you drive out.

Nottawasaga Bluffs Conservation Area

The Nottawasaga Bluffs Conservation Area at 8861 Sideroad 15/16 Nottawasaga, near Singhampton and Glen Huron, is the bigger walk: roughly 400 acres of Escarpment forest and bluff country held by the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority, crossed by the Bruce Trail and the Keyhole Trail. It is an NVCA property, attributed to the authority here and everywhere; parking, passes and trail conditions are the NVCA's to publish. Between the Bluffs and Devil's Glen, the township's south-west corner holds a full day of Escarpment hiking without leaving Clearview, and the drive between them, through Glen Huron and Dunedin, is half the pleasure.

Arenas, hockey and lacrosse

The township's indoor life runs on two rinks. The Stayner Community Centre and Arena (269 Regina Street) is home ice for Clearview Minor Hockey, the Canucks, the township's own minor hockey association, which also plays out of the Creemore rink, and for the Stayner Siskins Junior C club. Stayner also fields minor lacrosse: the Stayner Hitmen are the village's youth lacrosse association. The Creemore and District Recreation Centre (220 Collingwood Street, Creemore) is the second Township rink; its village-facing programming is listed in Creemore's guide. Skating times, registrations and schedules all belong to the Township and the associations, and this page freezes none of them. No dated home fixture was published at a grade this guide could print when the file was built, so none appears here or on the Events page; that is an honest gap, not an oversight.

The library as a plan, not a backup plan

In a township of villages, the library is the community living room, and Clearview's is a single system with three doors: Stayner (269 Regina Street), New Lowell, in the village's reclaimed historic schoolhouse, and Creemore (165 Library Street), plus a drop box in Nottawa. Programmes for children and adults run on the library's own LibCal calendar, branch by branch; the one dated programme on this build's file, a Georgian Triangle Humane Society storytime at the Stayner Branch on Wednesday, October 21, is on the Events page. Creemore Branch programmes are listed in Creemore's guide, under the same system and the same rule: each branch's file lives with its own community. Hours are the library's to publish; check its surface before you set out.

Creemore, and the rest of the villages

The single best half-day inside the township boundary that this page will not describe is Creemore, on purpose: the village has its own Dayfari guide with its own things to do, and repeating them here would double-count a neighbour you can reach in about eleven kilometres from Stayner. Go there through Creemore's guide. The smaller villages repay a slower kind of visit: New Lowell's schoolhouse library, the hall-and-arena rhythm of the Escarpment villages, and the concession roads between them. The Township's own tourism surface, Discover Clearview, carries the visitor layer for the whole township and is the right next click for scenic drives and seasonal routes.

The fairgrounds, honestly placed

The Great Northern Exhibition fairgrounds, at 2220 Fairgrounds Road North, sit inside Clearview Township on the Stayner side, though the fair itself is produced by the Collingwood Agricultural Society, whose tradition the society dates to 1855. Travellers file the GNE under Collingwood because of that name; geography files it here. The 2026 fair ran Friday, September 25 to Sunday, September 27, 2026, with the grounds opening daily at 9:00 a.m., per the society's own surfaces, and it is recorded as past on the Events page. Next year's dates are the society's to publish first. The same fairgrounds layer carries the township's festival year around it: the township-owned Small Halls Festival plays the community halls each fall, and New Lowell's Sunnidale Winterama, running since 1975, opens the year in February. Both are on the Events page at their dates.

Common questions

What is the best walk in Clearview?

For Escarpment hiking, the Nottawasaga Bluffs Conservation Area near Singhampton and Glen Huron (an NVCA property, about 400 acres, Bruce Trail and Keyhole Trail) and Devil's Glen Provincial Park near Glen Huron (an Ontario Parks property in the Mad River valley). Both are inside the township; both publish their own access and trail information.

Is Devil's Glen free?

This guide does not print a price, because fees are Ontario Parks' to publish and they change. Check the park's own Ontario Parks page before you go. The same rule applies at the Nottawasaga Bluffs, where the NVCA publishes parking and pass details.

Where do kids play hockey in Clearview?

With Clearview Minor Hockey, the Canucks, the township's own association, with home ice at the Stayner Community Centre and the Creemore and District Recreation Centre. Registration and schedules are the association's and the Township's to publish.

Why is Creemore not on this list?

Creemore is inside Clearview Township, and it has its own Dayfari guide with its own things-to-do list. Its venues and events are listed there so nothing is counted twice.

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