About Lincoln
The Town of Lincoln runs in a long ribbon from the shore of Lake Ontario up to the top of the Niagara Escarpment, taking in the villages of Beamsville, Vineland, Jordan, Campden and Rockway. It's one of the most productive — and most beautiful — agricultural areas in Canada, with a microclimate that has made the Beamsville Bench a globally recognized cool-climate wine region.
Beamsville is the town's lively main street, with heritage storefronts, the iconic Lincoln Theatre, cafés and the Lincoln County Humane Society building anchoring an easy walkable core. A short drive east, Jordan Village punches well above its size: a single block of restored 19th-century buildings now home to inns, the Inn On The Twenty, the Cave Spring Vineyard tasting room, Jordan Art Gallery and a beautifully kept Jordan Historical Museum.
In between is wine country — Cave Spring, Tawse, Hidden Bench, Thirty Bench, Henry of Pelham, Vineland Estates, Megalomaniac, Flat Rock and dozens more, many with patios and restaurants overlooking the Bench and Lake Ontario. Above it all on the Escarpment is Ball's Falls Conservation Area — twin waterfalls, a restored 19th-century hamlet and prime sections of the Bruce Trail. Lincoln is what people picture when they imagine Niagara wine country.
From the community
Lincoln through your lens
What makes Lincoln unique
Local character
Polished but unpretentious wine country — a working agricultural town with world-class tasting rooms tucked between the orchards.
Historic significance
Settled by Loyalists in the late 1700s; site of the 1813 Battle of Beaver Dams reenactments at Jordan Historical Museum and one of the oldest continuously farmed regions in Ontario.
Tourism style
Wine touring, farm-to-table dining, waterfalls and Escarpment hiking, paired with charming village stays and small-town main streets.