Summer Side of Life is Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot's sixth studio album.

The album marked a departure from the sound Lightfoot had established on Sit Down Young Stranger in its use of drums and electric instrumentation, to which he would later return in the second half of the decade.

The song "Love and Maple Syrup" was covered by Taylor Mitchell in 2009.

Nanci Griffith covered "10 Degrees and Getting Colder" on her 1993 album, Other Voices, Other Rooms.

The song had previously been recorded by J. D. Crowe & The New South on their eponymous album in 1975.