What’s open and closed this Civic Holiday Lengthy Weekend 2025

Whether you are eager about exploring native historical past, searching the farmers market, or having fun with the outside, there is not any scarcity of how to profit from the Civic Holiday lengthy weekend within the metropolis.

St. Catharines Farmers Market
The St. Catharines Farmers Market will probably be open Saturday, Aug. 2 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. that includes one of the best that Niagara makes, bakes, and grows. The Discovery Table sequence continues Saturday morning, with the theme ‘Tomatoes’. The Music within the Square live performance sequence options Rusty Jacob acting on the Market stage from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For farmers market occasions, together with the Discovery Table sequence lineup, go to stcatharines.ca/MarketOccasions.

Swimming
For these desirous to make a splash, St. Catharines Kiwanis Aquatics Centre and all of the City’s indoor and outside aquatic amenities are open all through the weekend, together with the vacation Monday, for normal working hours and commonly scheduled packages, together with swimming classes. Pool info is accessible at stcatharines.ca/aquatics.

Splash Pads
All 5 City splash pads will probably be open over the lengthy weekend. Catherine Street Park, Pearson Park, Secord Woods Park, Bogart Street Park, and West Park splash pads are open day by day from 10 a.m. to eight p.m. For extra info, together with places, go to stcatharines.ca/SplashPads.

Happy Rolph’s Animal Farm
Families can spend a while with livestock, together with goats, pigs, and horses all weekend lengthy at Happy Rolph’s Animal Farm. In addition to animal viewing, households can benefit from the playground, in addition to the paths alongside the ponds and the waterfront. The park is open from 10 a.m. to eight p.m. day by day. For extra info, go to stcatharines.ca/HappyRolphs.

Garden City Golf Course
Get in a spherical or two at Garden City Golf Course, with tee instances accessible day by day from 7 a.m. to six p.m. The final tee time for 18 holes is 3:30 p.m. Power carts can be found. Book a tee time upfront by calling 905.688.5601 ext. 1677. Visit stcatharines.ca/Golf for extra info.

St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre
The St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre is open day by day from 9 a.m. to five p.m. all through the lengthy weekend, together with Monday, Aug. 4. Explore the reveals to be taught extra about our metropolis’s historical past. For extra info, together with present reveals, go to stcatharines.ca/Museum.

Lakeside Park Carousel
The historic carousel with 68 hand-carved picket animals, together with horses, lions, camels, goats, and giraffes, in addition to 4 chariots, operates all weekend, together with vacation Monday, from 11 a.m. to eight p.m. The carousel remains to be solely 5 cents per trip or admission by donation. For extra info go to stcatharines.ca/Carousel.

Parks and trails
Explore roughly 1,000 acres of parks, gardens, open greenspace and trails in St. Catharines, together with the Bruce Trail and different trails in Short Hills Provincial Park. Learn extra at stcatharines.ca/Trails. You can discover a listing of all of the City’s parks, and their facilities, at stcatharines.ca/parks.

Closures
The following City amenities will probably be closed on the Civic Holiday, Monday, Aug. 4:

• City Hall
• Enterprise Centre
• City arenas
• Russell Avenue and Port Weller neighborhood centres
• Dunlop Drive and West St. Catharines older grownup centres
• Victoria Lawn Cemetery administration workplace (visitation is at all times accessible from daybreak to nightfall)

A reminder that the Morningstar Mill heritage web site at Decew Falls stays closed to the general public for the 2025 working season as a result of building and restoration work occurring on the web site. Access to the Bruce Trail stays open alongside the aspect of the property, however there isn’t any onsite parking accessible through the building.