Scugog Real Estate

Port Perry's older streets around Queen, Perry and Water hold the Victorian and early 1900s houses; the 1960s to 1980s bungalows and side-splits sit in the blocks toward Highway 7A, and the newer subdivisions of two-storeys and bungalow lofts fill the north and west edges. Prince Albert, just south, has become almost a suburb of the town. Across the causeway, Scugog Island is a mix of year-round homes, converted cottages on the beach roads and the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation, whose reserve holds the Great Blue Heron Casino, one of the township's biggest employers. Blackstock, established in 1851 in the old Cartwright Township, is the eastern village with its own school, arena and fair; Caesarea on the east shore dates to 1836 and is the cottage colony; Seagrave, Greenbank, Epsom, Utica, Manchester and Nestleton are crossroads hamlets with century homes and farms. Rural Scugog, the listings community that catches everything outside Port Perry and Blackstock, is where the acreage, the waterfront and the horse properties are.

Highway 7A starts at Manchester, where Highway 7 and Highway 12 run together, and heads east for 48.3 kilometres as Scugog Street through Port Perry, over the Scugog Causeway to the island and on toward Nestleton, Bethany and Highway 115. Highway 12 is the road to Whitby, Brooklin and the 407 interchange at Baldwin Street, and northbound it carries Sunderland and Beaverton traffic; Highway 7 shares its pavement for the stretch between Brooklin and Sunderland. Regional Road 57 runs south from Blackstock to Bowmanville and the 401. There is no train; Whitby GO and Oshawa GO are the stations people drive to. Durham Region Transit's Port Perry terminal on Highway 7A is served by Route 905 to Uxbridge and Whitby and, as of this writing, by a route to the Ontario Tech and Durham College campus in north Oshawa; On Demand rides can be booked from stops in Port Perry or from the driveway in the rural areas. Greenbank Airport and the Port Perry aerodrome serve small aircraft.

Scugog is Durham District School Board territory. Port Perry High School serves the whole township, fed by R.H. Cornish Public School and S.A. Cawker Public School in town, Prince Albert Public School to the south, Cartwright Central Public School in Blackstock and Greenbank Public School to the west. Catholic elementary students attend Good Shepherd Catholic School, which Durham Catholic District School Board opened in Port Perry in 1999; a Catholic high school means a bus to Whitby or Oshawa. French-language options come through Viamonde and MonAvenir. Which school a given house feeds is decided by the board's boundary map, and rural addresses often bus a long way, so ask before you buy rather than after. For post-secondary, Ontario Tech and Durham College in north Oshawa are the closest campuses, and the transit route from the Port Perry terminal was designed around that trip; Fleming College in Lindsay is the other direction.

Lake Scugog covers about 68 square kilometres but averages only 1.4 metres deep, so it is a fishing, paddling and ice-fishing lake more than a swimming lake, with weeds and a marl bottom that cloud the water by midsummer. Its only outlet, the Scugog River, runs to Sturgeon Lake and the Trent-Severn Waterway, which is how boaters reach the Kawarthas. Kawartha Conservation, based in Lindsay, regulates floodplain and shoreline work around the lake and owns the Durham East Cross Forest tracts nearby; Central Lake Ontario Conservation handles the creeks on the township's southern edge. Lakeridge Health Port Perry is a 24-bed acute hospital with an emergency department and general-practitioner-based services. Daily life runs on Queen Street's independents, a grocery and hardware cluster on the highway, the Scugog Arena, which marked 50 years in 2026, the Scugog Memorial Public Library, Palmer and Birdseye parks on the water, the Scugog Shores Museum and a fall fair that has run for more than 150 years.