johnston's cranberry marsh

On the first weekend after the Canadian thanksgiving Balla has its cranberry festival. Its the busiest weekend of the year taking over the entire town and surrounding areas People are bused in from surrounding towns rain or shine. You can tour the places that make or harvest the cranberries and the winery. There are wagon tours of the marsh. Its easy to spend a hole day there. Take a umbrella because it usually rains. You can also drive your own car. The wife goes every year with friends

Visited the marsh this past weekend and was greeted by wonderful staff especially Jocelyn. Cheese and wine was delicious and snow shoe trails were well groomed and marked. Fantastic experience will be back

It appears I knew nothing about cranberries. All the staff, from the young lady giving the tour to the more mature man in hip waders out in the bog were more than willing to answer questions and explain things. The wine tasting was informative & we came away with a couple of bottles. Would I put it on par with, say, walking on the Great Wall of China? No. But for a laid back afternoon in October- my wife and I had a great time.

As part of our bus trip, we stopped here. It was raining, but we enjoyed the wagon ride around the marsh. It was very informative. The had a great gift shop. Try the cranberry wine.

Dear Joyyy,Thank you for taking the time to write about your visit. We're so sorry you were disappointed by your tour! My family and I open our farm to visitors because we’re passionate about cranberry farming and want people to be as excited by it as we are. What we do is different 365 days a year, but we try to offer visitors a chance to see a real family farm in operation. All the pictures on the website were taken by us or our visitors. Of course, like any farm, we also have days like these: http://cranberry.ca/oops No matter what stage we’re at in the year, we do our best to offer an interesting, fun, authentic experience, and I'm so disappointed the tour didn't meet your expectations. Should you choose to visit us again, I’m happy to offer you a complimentary tour. Please contact Lesley at 705-762-3203 or ontario@cranberry.ca to arrange the details.Best, Wendy Johnston

Went on the weekend...did the tour and wine tasting...very nice...great spot...great hostess...great wine...$10.00 and you get almost a nice size glass of wine.....We enjoyed it, we always wanted to go...so I highly recommend it

I look forward to a trip up to the cranberry marsh in October, the nearby city of Bala holds it's cranberry festival the weekend after Thanksgiving. They have wine tasting, a tour around the bog, some vendors set up, and a gift shop. I love their cranberry candles, they burn just like they smell.

My husband and I really enjoyed the bog to bottle tour and wine tasting at this beautiful family owned and run Cranberry marsh. We were surprised to find out that they also grow blueberries as we'll! We really enjoyed sampling all of the different wines, dessert wines and spritzers as we'll! Would highly recommend!

This is a place that has clearly stayed true to their roots, family-owned since its founding and still growing. The 1pm 'Bog to Bottle' tour and tasting was $10 for an interesting look at both the cranberry growing and wine-making areas. though it was a little short ultimately. The wine itself though was just fantastic, and we barely made it out of there with only 6 bottles! They also have several nice walking trails around the property, including one around the northern marshes where there are signposts set up that give you snippets about the industry and processes. Overall, definitely worth a stop if you're in the area!

We weren't entirely sure that a cranberry bog tour was going to be too exciting, but it was great! A really nice place and tour. The tasting is fun (though sweeter than a lot of wines... I think the wild blueberry wine is like a blueberry Chardonnay) and there are a lot of fun things (cranberry related of course) in the shop.

They're open every day, year round. Well worth going for the daily tour at 1pm - recently named a "Signature Canadian Experience" by the Canadian tourism commission.The wine was excellent! A local cheese and cracker plate is also available.

We went here when they were doing cranberry harvesting - early October. It was a week or so before Canadian Thanksgiving. It was fun to see how the cranberries were harvested.In addition, nice store, and harvesting area to visit.We did their cranberry wine tasting as well under their outdoor tent (it was raining just a little while we were there.) The staff was very nice and professional - let us do shared tasting (my better half did not know if he would tolerate cranberry wine...) and surprise suprise both of us very much enjoyed their cranberry wines.Parking area across the street.If in area and interesting in cranberries, definitely recommend a visit.

Was pleasantly surprised. Took a helicopter ride and a tractor tour. Loved the candy coated cranberries.

We are from Newmarket and had guests from South Dakota and California last week. We took a trip north to see the beautiful colors and take a ride on the Island Queen. We saw signs on the highway on Johnston's Marsh and we all decided to stop by on the way back. We are glad we did! It was fabulous! The gal in the store was very helpful. She gave us a quick education on cranberry growing. We tasted cranberry jellies and jams and really loved the interesting combinations of flavors. We bought cranberry honey, cranberry wine and cranberry bread (which we ate in the car after we left). We plan on attending the Festival in October!! Thanks for a fun visit!

Interesting, educational and delicious. Sample two wines for free, or pay for a complete wine-tasting experience. If you can, time your visit to include the free tour.