The City
Sudbury's key attractions are located to the south of the downtown core, which is focused on Elm Street between Notre Dame and Lorne Street. Making the most of the city's unusual geology, Science North (daily: May to late June & Sept to mid-Oct 9am-5pm; late June to Aug 9am-6pm; mid-Oct to April 10am-4pm; $8.95, children $6.50), a huge snowflake-shaped structure on Ramsey Lake Road, is installed in a cavern blasted into the rock of the Canadian Shield. The hands-on displays enable you to simulate a miniature hurricane, gauge your fitness, lie on a bed of nails, learn to lip-read, call up amateur radio hams worldwide, tune in to weather-tracking stations and try different sensory tests, all under the guidance of students from the city's Laurentian University. The museum also has a collection of insects and animals, most of which can be handled. The flying squirrels give exhibitions of their prowess, sailing effortlessly 25m through the air, and there's a rather smelly and somnolent porcupine of considerable charm called Ralf. There's also an IMAX Theatre (daily; adults $8, children $6.50) with its 22-metre-wide screen, and, by the IMAX entrance, the Virtual Voyage ($6.50), a virtual-reality roller-coaster journey to Mars. The town's symbol, a nine-metre-high steel replica of a five-cent piece, known as the Big Nickel, stands by the Trans-Canada on the western approach to town. The nickel marks the entrance to the Big Nickel Mine (daily: May to late June & Sept to mid-Oct 9am-5pm; late June to Aug 9am-6pm; $8.50), where you can take a less than enthralling tour of a replica mine and mail a card from the underground postbox to let the folks back home know you've travelled 20m below the earth's surface. A Play All Day Passport covering all these sites costs $24.95, children $15.95.
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