Woods Ontario Map

About Woods, Ontario

Woods is a locality in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada. It is classified as a town. Woods is located at 45.4786°N, 80.2064°W.

Woods unfurls along the edge of a vast, shimmering expanse of freshwater, a place where the granite bones of the Canadian Shield rise from the deep blues and greens of Georgian Bay. It lies 19.2 km north-west of Parry Sound, ON (from Parry Sound, ON: bearing 316°T), and is situated 12.1 km north-west of Nobel. The air here carries the crisp, resinous scent of pine and balsam fir, a constant reminder of the dense forests that press in from all sides, their dark boughs often dusted with a fine powder of snow or shimmering with the dew of a humid summer morning. Jagged outcrops of ancient rock, smoothed by millennia of glacial passage, punctuate the landscape, their grey and pink hues catching the low-slung sunlight in a way that suggests immense, quiet power. The water, a vital artery, laps at rocky shores and sandy coves, its surface often rippled by the breath of the wind or disturbed by the silent passage of a loon. This is a landscape shaped by water and rock, a history etched into the very stone by the passage of glaciers and the steady work of Indigenous peoples for millennia before European settlement. The economy of Woods has long been tied to the bounty of the surrounding waters and forests; once logging and fishing were the lifeblood, and while those industries have shifted, the connection to the natural world remains palpable. Today, the vibrant hum of tourism and the quiet industry of marine services define much of Woods' daily life, with marinas dotted along the shoreline, their masts like a skeletal forest against the sky. The distinctive character of Woods is in its unyielding connection to the raw beauty of its setting, a place where the rhythms of the seasons dictate the pulse of life, from the vibrant greens of summer to the stark, silent beauty of a northern winter.

About This Woods Map Page

Explore Woods, Ontario, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 45.478611, -80.206389. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Detailed location data for Woods includes the postal code (P2A), telephone area code (226, 249, 289, 343, 365, 382, 416, 437, 519, 548, 613, 647, 705, 742, 807, 905). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.

Location data for Woods is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.