Goderich.

Goderich sits on a clay bluff at the mouth of the Maitland River where it meets the east shore of Lake Huron, with three sand beaches — North Beach, Main Beach, and St. Christopher's (Cove) Beach — strung together by a boardwalk that wraps the working harbour beneath the 1847 Goderich Lighthouse.

The town centre is built around The Square, an octagonal radial plan laid out in the 1827–1829 Canada Company surveys overseen by John Galt, with the Huron County Courthouse, the Huron County Museum, and the historic gaol clustered close by. Inland, the Maitland River cedar gorge carries the Tiger Dunlop section of the Maitland Trail toward Benmiller and Falls Reserve Conservation Area, and the 30-kilometre Goderich-to-Auburn Rail Trail runs east out of the harbour.

Goderich is on the traditional territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation and is a short drive from Stratford, Bayfield, and the south Lake Huron beach corridor.