What winter is actually like in Pickering
Pickering runs a long way north from the lake, and the difference between its ends in winter is larger than the map suggests. Down by Frenchman’s Bay and Bay Ridges the lake keeps things wet and slushy; up past Taunton Road, on the Brock Road corridor toward the Seaton lands and the 407, it is genuinely open country that holds snow and blows across the road. Drivers who judge conditions by what they saw at home in West Shore are regularly surprised eight kilometres north.
