What's the Closest Place To Toronto I can see "The Northern Lights"?

Question

My Father has always wanted to take my mother to see them so I wonder whats the closest place to Toronto that you can see them. A friend of my father told him that you can see them from Sudbary. Is this True? Please Help. I'd like for my fathers wish to come true.

Answer 1

The closest place is actually just north of Toronto, away from street light glow. I live about 30 miles north of the lakeshore and if there's been decent solar flare activity during the day, I have no problems looking northward and watching the lights on average of 3 or 4 times a winter. If Toronto wasn't so well lit at night, you could see them from there.
Here's a site for what you can expect to see in Toronto. Norhern lights are at the bottom of the page.
http://hven.swarthmore.edu/~burns/nightsky.html

To increase your chances of watching them, subscribe to just about any astronomical website and keep a watch on their solar activity reports. The more active the sun is, the better chance at that evening having a northern light show.

You might want to choose your answer now. Check out the profile of the cheat below me and some of his previous answers.

Answer 2

Northern Lights In Toronto

Answer 3

Perhaps you might suggest that your folks hold out for this: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/10/27/lights-northern.html

The money they save by viewing the lights on a computer, could be used toward a trip to another destination. I've often seen the northern lights through an airplane window.

Hope that helps!

Answer 4

I have seen them just outside of Ottawa, in the Gatineau Hills. Hills and lights are both breathtaking.

Answer 5

Baffin Island is a good spot. Not too far from Toronto either.

Answer 6

i doubt you can see them in sudbury, i'm not very sure but i think you would have to go quite a bit more north to see them, sorry. i hope i helped though! and i also hope i'm wrong,