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1. Rent a cottage in Blue Mountain

Blue Mountain is the most famous ski resort in Ontario. Beside Intrawest resort there are many cozy ski chalets and beautiful lake cottages available from private owners and professional cottage rental agencies. Blue Mountain offers amazing weekend getaway just 1.5 hour drive from Toronto where you can combine threal of downhill skiing with the relaxation in Scandinavian spa. To find the best cottage based on your needs use FindCottage.ca unique search engine.

Website: Blue Mountain cottage rentals

Price: Prices start as low as $700 per winter weekend and drop a little during summer months. Be ready to pay the premium price if you want to spend New Years or Christmas at Blue Mountain.

2. Ski from the top of Blue mountain

Blue Mountain stretches across the Niagara Escarpment with 720 vertical feet, 15 lifts, and 36 trails ranging from beginner to double black diamond. You will enjoy plenty of on-snow time, with four high-speed six-person lifts across the resort. If you prefer to hit the hills after the sun sets, Blue Moutnain has you covered with 24 trails and 11 lifts under the lights. Blue Mountain Ski Resort is the largest ski resort in Ontario and it offers ski rentals, beginner lessons, 4-star accommodations and has very cozy ski village.

Website: http://www.bluemountain.ca/

Price: Lift tickets are $56 per adult during the day and $45 during the night skiing. If you come to Blue Mountain often or stay there for a week - season passes provide great value. For example, Sunday-Thursday day plus all week night (5x7) skiing will cost you only $169 per season.

3. Relax in Le Scandinave Spa

Le Scandinave Spa is a Nordic-style spa in woodland setting with all-weather pools and saunas. While enjoying the steaming-hot pool and thermal waterfall, bathers can observe beautiful Blue Mountain. Spa treatments-Swedish, hot stone and Thai yoga massages-typically follow the hot-cold bathing routine: first heating the body in the log cabin sauna, steam room or any of the three hot pools to open up the pores, then plunging into a cold water pool. After performing the ritual three times, your muscles are considered sufficiently softened up for a massage.

Website: http://www.scandinave.com/en/bluemountain/

Price: The cost is $44 for bath and $115 for an hour session of high-class massage.

4. Hit Wasaga Beach

Wasaga Beach is the longest freshwater beach in the world - 14 km long. The beach itself is white and sandy.

The beach is divided into smaller beaches with the public beaches numbered 1 to 6 sequentially from east to west. A boardwalk runs most of the way along Beach 1 and 2. Beach 1 draws the largest crowds, with the popularity quality of the beaches decreasing the further west.

West of the main beaches is another large beach (New Wasaga) that has many houses and cottages with direct access to beach.

Wasaga Beach has a good variety of accommodations and restaurant choices. Throughout the summer there is a different event almost every weekend, lots of choices for evening entertainment and an endless variety of summer sporting activities.

Price: Free

5. Visit Scenic Caves and Walk the Suspension Bridge

Both Scenic Caves and Suspension Bridge are conveniently located in the park just minutes away from the Blue Mountain.

Take part in a self-guided hike along the trails through the caves and caverns.

Once inside the labyrinth of caves you will feel a connection with the Petun people who once used these very caves as protection and shelter from the weather and their enemies.

For the more adventurous, you can descend into the ice cave that is so deep and cold that snow and ice can usually be seen even in the early summer.

The Suspension Bridge is at the highest point on the Niagara Escarpment, suspended high above the ground. Visitors have the most spectacular view of Georgian Bay and the surrounding countryside that is 10,000 square-km of awe-inspiring view. At 126 meters long, 25 meters above the valley and stream, and more than 300 meters above Georgian Bay, it is the longest suspension footbridge in Ontario.

Website: http://www.sceniccaves.com/

Price: Admission to the Scenic Caves adventure park (both Scenic Caves and Suspension Bridge) is $19 per adult. Park operates during May-October. It is also open in winter for cross-country skiing.

6. Take a Plunge!

Plunge! is the ultimate, all ages, four season water adventure at the base of Blue Mountain Ski Resort.

Inspired from the tradition of cottage-style boathouses, Plunge! is an authentic and magical expression of a place and its people. Indoor-outdoor pools, indoor water playground, hot tubs, rope swings, docks and slides are sure to provide year-round fun. Or, if you prefer, simply watch all the action from the comfort of your dock chair.
Plunge! has something for everyone, infant to senior. With swimming lessons, water fitness, and more, kids and children will have fun, as will the adults in the family.

Website: http://plungebluemountain.ca/

Price: Rates are flexible: full and half-day, family pass, etc. Regular full day rate for adult is $17 and for 3-13 year old child - $12.