The community's oldest building, the Uxbridge Friends Meeting House, was built in 1820 and overlooks the town from Quaker Hill, a kilometre to the west.

Uxbridge area is also home to many small industrial businesses, cultivation farms and beekeeping organizations.

German is the mother tongue of 1.4% of the residents of Uxbridge, while native speakers of Italian make up 1.0% of the population.

Uxbridge trails run through and alongside historic villages, mixed forests, meadows, ponds, streams, and wetlands.

It was formed in 1972 by the Uxbridge-Scott Historical Society, who holds an annual Heritage Day festival to supports the museum.

In addition, the Thomas Foster Memorial Temple, erected in 1935–36 by the former mayor of Toronto, is situated a short distance north of town.

Montgomery lived in the area from 1911 to 1926, and wrote half of her books at what is now the site of the Leaskdale Manse Museum.

[15] Instead of a single connected block, the park is made up of individual parcels of lands within the Uxbridge area.

The area now features the Uxbridge Lawn Bowling Club, The Bonner Boys Splash Pad, tennis courts and a baseball diamond.

[21] Today there are three ski resorts, all located within a short distance of one another: The Uxbridge Fall Fair has been held annually since 1886.

Attractions include home craft, vegetable and flower exhibits, cattle, goat, sheep, poultry and rabbit shows, the midway, tractor pull, demolition derby, heavy horse pull and barnyard rodeo.

Since 1988, Uxbridge has hosted an annual Heritage Christmas Craft Show, held the second Saturday in November.

The York Durham Heritage Railway, opened in 1996, is a tourist train operating between Stouffville and Uxbridge.

This is a drive-through light show through Elgin Park in which you see a variety of different displays and takes about 20 minutes to drive through.

[25] Uxbridge station is the northern terminus of the York Durham Heritage Railway, which runs from Stouffville.