Hotels in Bowmanville, Ontario

A little about Bowmanville...

Bowmanville is a town, now part of the Municipality of Clarington in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario and located about 55 km east of Toronto. It is located about 15 km east of Oshawa along the former Ontario King's Highway 2.

Bowmanville is surrounded by farmland on three sides, and Lake Ontario to the south. Nearby forests are mainly pine, elm, birch and oak, lying in the Bowmanville Creek and Soper Creek valleys and to the hills of the north as well as to the south. Farmlands formerly covered central Bowmanville until the population increased, thus establishing a nascent downtown core by the early 19th century. The harbour area of the town is known as Port Darlington.

Bowmanville is bisected by CP railway, and the CN lines run to the south of town. Bowmanville had its own transit system, Clarington Transit from 2002-2005, and is now part of the Durham Region Transit East Region, as well as having connections to GO Transit and VIA Rail. The Bowmanville Creek runs west of downtown Bowmanville. Bowmanville has 3 golf courses, 1 large recreational complex (Garnet B. Rickard Recreational Centre), an Indoor Soccer Centre.

Bowmanville, Ontario is also home to Mosport International Raceway which hosts both minor grand prix races and major racing events by CASCAR, the SCCA, and American Le Mans Series annually.

It also has the largest private zoo in Canada, the Bowmanville Zoo. The zoo's residents have been in films, including the now deceased Bongo and his brother Caesar (lions) from Ghost in the Darkness, and there is a primate making wild but accurate NHL playoff predictions. The elephants are taken for walks occasionally through the town and have been known to make an appearance at Bowmanville High School's first football game of the season. A $2 million hockey museum created by GSM exhibit designer Geneviève Angio-Morneau, "Total Hockey", opened Sunday, October 29, 2006 at the Rickard Recreational Centre. Utilizing the artifacts and photographs of former Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster Brian McFarlane. Total Hockey was opened by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, then Mayor John Mutton and McFarlane with hockey stars Bob Baun, Johnny Bower, Red Kelly and Frank Mahovlich looking on.