Access: 1) Glendon Green Boat Launch on County Road 18. Entrance is unmarked. If arriving on County Road 18 from Cherry Valley, the entrance to the launch is exactly .9 km from the Outlet bridge. If coming from County Road 11 (East Lake Road) the entrance to the launch is exactly 1.2 km from park entrance intersection
2) Lions Boat Launch at the intersection of County Roads 18 & 10 in Cherry Valley
No fee parking and no fee usage for the above launches.
Description: The famous Outlet Beach (Sandbanks Provincial Park) is a baymouth sandbar that separates East Lake from Lake Ontario. If accessing East Lake from the boat launch at County Road 18, paddlers have a choice of paddling the entire lake (about 20 km), or entering the Outlet River right at the boat launch and paddling down the river toward the mouth at Lake Ontario.
Depending on the season of the year, canoes or kayaks may have to be coaxed from the mouth of the river to Lake Ontario once the mouth has drifted in with sand from the open lake. From there, the sky is the limit as paddlers can tour the beaches of the park that attracts over 10,000 sunbathers/day, or head on out toward the limestone cliffs of Salmon Point. If remaining in East Lake, paddlers can follow either shore of the lake where there are some interesting wetland areas. Mute swans, dabbling ducks, and shorebirds are often seen here. Typical wetland birds such as marsh wrens, bitterns, swamp sparrows and great blue herons are often seen and heard in the cattails. There is also a small colony of black terns nesting in one of the cattail marshes.
If accessing the lake from the boat launch at Cherry Valley, paddlers have a choice of exploring the northeast end of the lake where there is an extensive cattail marsh, or paddle the entire lake by striking off in either direction. Private campgrounds are located along the County Road 18 shoreline, and Fairfield's Resort is a particularly interesting little peninsula that juts out into the open lake. Nooks and crannies abound in East Lake, making this a very interesting paddling destination.
Access: