Barrie Downtown and Waterfront

[wyliepoon]

Photos of Barrie's downtown (Dunlop Street) and the Lake Simcoe waterfront...

Barrie's downtown transit terminal/bus station, located at Maple and Simcoe near the waterfront.

Across the street from the terminal, on the waterfront, is the Spirit Catcher. Featured at Vancouver's Expo '86, the sculpture is now considered Barrie's symbol.

The "wings" of the figure is made up of what appears to be gigantic spears, and they move in the wind! I find gigantic steel sculptures to be intimidating, but the wings add a new level of intimidation to it!

Group photo with friends in front of the Spirit Catcher

Ice cream shack

Centennial Park beach on Kempenfelt Bay, very busy on this weekend, with the Barrie Brew and BBQ Festival

Roast pig on a spit

Heading into downtown Barrie, one of the first things I noticed was the back sides of downtown buildings that face the waterfront.

Barrie's "Five Points" intersection (Bayfield & Dunlop)

East on Dunlop

Memorial Square

Weird looking City Hall

More backsides of buildings facing the waterfront

 

[Observer Walt]

Thanks for the pictures. Recently we're getting a good portfolio of shots from smaller Ontario cities. Barrie is a nice place, although you're right, the City Hall is weird. I don't know what they were thinking.

 

[Skeezix]

Great shots. Thanks!

No bicycling downtown? Geez, I guess the pesky cyclists would interfere with the drivers....

I have to say though, the photos are great, but downtown Barrie strikes me as rather ... blah.

 

[simply Dan]

I can't believe someone thought that adding the green metal junk to the roof of that building would be an improvement.

 

[ganjavih]

'Weird' is being generous... it's butt-ugly.

Nice tour of a pleasant town...

 

[flar]

The beach looks nice. As the temperature approaches 90 degrees this morning, I wish I could be there.

 

[Long Island Mike]

Barrie,Ontario

Flar: Good pics of Barrie! As I remember reading it is a local summer resort town on Lake Simcoe. The city looks interesting and worth a look! LI MIKE

 

[flar]

^^These are Wylie's pics!

 

[Long Island Mike]

Barrie,Ontario

Sorry,Wylie-I will give you credit where it is due! How big of a getaway resort is Barrie for GTA residents? LI MIKE

 

[junctionist]

Wow, no bicycling. And it's zero tolerance. I'm really going to respect that downtown by not dropping by. There's probably something I'm missing here. Maybe the BMX punks were taking over. Maybe they want pedestrians only. Or perhaps guerrilla suburbanites added the skateboarding bicycling part...

 

[lobbby]

Nice shots! Downtown Barrie is pleasantly surprising...it sure doesn’t look like that from the 400 lol!

 

[Softee]

That no bicycling law blows me away, I could understand if it meant no bicycling on the sidewalk, but none in the downtown at all? Wow.

 

[interchange42]

Sorry,Wylie-I will give you credit where it is due! How big of a getaway resort is Barrie for GTA residents? LI MIKE

Barrie is mostly a place Torontonians drive past to get to actual resorts. Barrie is now to a great degree a bedroom community of 100,000 people, many of whom drive down the 400 every day to work in the GTA.

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