Present Day
Grand Bend is home to a variety of stores and eateries. The main strip is the centre of activity in the town, with shopping during the day and night life venues during the evening drawing crowds. The atmosphere of Grand Bend has given the town a reputation of being Florida north. As well as Main Street, Grand Bend acts as a regional cultural centre, boasting art galleries in the town and the Huron Country Playhouse on the outskirts.
Today, Grand Bend's year-round population of 2,000 people swells to about 50,000 in the summer months on holiday weekends. The demographic population of Grand Bend is quite diverse. Families owning vacation homes in the adjacent communities of Oakwood Park, Southcott Pines and Beach O' Pines, are from Ontario and Michigan, including: Toronto; Sarnia; London; Windsor; Detroit; and locations as far as New York, Florida, Texas, and the American west coast.
The Pinery Provincial Park and the Lambton Heritage Museum are located seven kilometres south of Grand Bend.
Grand Bend Motorplex has a dragstrip that hosts a International Hot Rod Association race and the IHRA Canadian Nationals, Canada's longest running and largest drag race.
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