Woodstock Travel Guide

Located in downtown Woodstock the Museum has ever changing exhibits featuring local history.

Exhibits include natural history of the area as well as local political history. There is also a display on the infamous murder that happened in the late 1800s resulting in the last public hanging at the Woodstock courthouse. Check out the murder weapon and the stories and photos.

All around the museum are gardens and walkways. As the former town hall, it is a central gathering point for locals to hang out, visit, and relax by the fountain and gardens.

Southside Park is a gem among Woodstock's many parks. It has facilities for baseball, soccer, volley ball, and lawn bowling, but the most wonderfull part about the park are its many trails, gardens, water fowl and the lake and river. This park has it all!

Sunday evenings a band plays a wide variety of music and over the summer many events are staged here from parades, to carnavals, to dog shows.

The prize winning gardens are breath taking and watching the swans and ducks on the pond and rivers are fun and relaxing activities.

It is the perfect place for an evening stroll or bike ride.

Take a walk down Vansittart Avenue - also known as Van-Ave by the locals, or officially as Oxford Hwy 59 N (isn't that boring).

It's a beautiful street full of old mansions from the 1800s. Also lining the street are trees in full bloom and seasonal flowers. There is a park and playground as well.

These houses are just stunning. The families that live on Van Ave do a wonderfull job of making it one of the most beautiful streets in Woodstock.

Every small town has it's crazy tradition and the Springbank Snow Countess Monument is Woodstock's.

The Springbank Snow Countess Monument is a large concrete cow - which is appropriately decorated according to the season. Apparantly Springbank Snow Countess holds a world record for butterfat production and the monument is to honour her achievement! The cow made her records during her life from 1919 to 1936.