List of parks in Toronto

The following is a list of notable parks in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The appearance of Toronto's ravines was altered by floods caused by Hurricane Hazel in October 1954 shortly after the establishment of Metropolitan Toronto and many of Toronto's parks were established in the resulting floodplain.[1]

Municipal parks

The following notable parks are maintained by Toronto Parks and Recreation Division:

A

The conservatory at Allan Gardens. Established in 1858, the gardens is one of the city's oldest extant parks.
The beach at Ashbridge's Bay Park. The park is situated next to Woodbine Beach, along the eastern part of the Toronto waterfront.

B

Barbara Hall Park in Church and Wellesley
Bellevue Square Park is a small park and public square with a labyrinth located in Kensington Market.
Berczy Park is a small park in Downtown Toronto named after William Berczy.
Bluffer's Park is a park situated along the Scarborough Bluffs.
The Broadview Subway Station Parkette is one of many parkettes operated by the City of Toronto.
Budd Sugarman Park is a local park located next to Rosedale station.

C

Centennial Park is a large regional park located in the western portion of Etobicoke.
Cherry Beach Park is a municipal park and beach along the waterfront.

D

The Don Valley Brick Works was a former clay quarry that was converted into a city park.

E

Edwards Gardens is a municipal botanical gardens and is also the site of the Toronto Botanical Garden.

F

Fairbank Memorial Park

G

Guild Park and Gardens is a park located along the Scarborough Bluffs. It is home to a collection of relics saved from demolished buildings in Toronto.

H

High Park is one of the largest parks in Toronto managed by municipal government. Shown here are the cherry blossom (sakura) trees in the park during hanami.

I–K

Opened in 2007, Ireland Park commemorates the thousands who fled Ireland during the Great Famine.

L

Little Norway Park is named after Little Norway, a Royal Norwegian Air Force training base that occupied the site during World War II.
Love Park's pool and lone northern catalpa tree on its own islet

M

The Humber Bay Arch Bridge on the Martin Goodman Trail, a multi-use path maintained by the City.

N–O

Olympic Park is adjacent to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre

P–R

Riverdale Park is a large park that spans the lower Don River.

S

St. James Park is a small park located next to St. James Cathedral Church in the St. Lawrence neighbourhood of downtown Toronto.
Sugar Beach is an urban beach park located in East Bayfront.

T–V

Trinity Bellwoods Park with a view of the CN Tower in the backfround
An inuksuk at Toronto Inukshuk Park
Basketball courts at Underpass Park, an urban park located underneath an underpass in the West Don Lands.

W–Z

Withrow Park is a municipal park situated in the neighbourhood of Riverdale.
Wychwood Barns is a former streetcar maintenance facility that was converted into a community centre and a park.

Former city parks

  • Finch Meander Area – part of Rouge National Urban Park and parking area Parks Canada Emergency Access Area
  • Glen Eagles Vista – part of Rouge National Urban Park Glen Eagles Vista

Provincial parks

The West Island of Ontario Place in 2006 with Exhibition Place to the north

There are three provincially owned parks in the City of Toronto.

Parks that are owned by the Government of Ontario include:

  • Ontario Place — artificially constructed former amusement park and entertainment and event facility on the waterfront south of Exhibition Place and is being redeveloped; includes RBC Amphitheatre (which replaced The Forum), which is on a separate island and has separate admission and will also be redeveloped
  • Queen's Park — park setting on the south and north ends of the Ontario Legislative Building. The southern portion of the park is owned by the provincial government, while the northern portion of the park is owned by the University of Toronto and leased to the municipal government for 999 years; not to be confused with Queen's Greenbelt in North York
  • Trillium Park — artificially constructed park with a natural-looking landscape planted with native tree and shrub species; built on the site of a former Ontario Place parking lot

Federal parks

Rouge National Urban Park, a national park managed by Parks Canada, is situated in the eastern portion of Toronto.

There are three federally owned parks in the City of Toronto, including one national park managed by Parks Canada, a federal agency of the Government of Canada.

Parks owned by the federal government include:

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) (an agency of the provincial government) is one of 36 conservation authorities in Ontario, Canada with a jurisdiction covering 3,467 square kilometres (1,339 sq mi) over nine different watersheds. The TRCA operates many conservation areas in the Toronto region, including three completely or primarily within the City of Toronto limits:

  • The Village at Black Creek (formerly Black Creek Pioneer Village) primarily in North York with a very small section in Vaughan
  • Tommy Thompson Park (Leslie Street Spit) on the Toronto waterfront
  • Humber Bay Shores Waterfront Park — a park linking City-owned Palace Pier Park and Humber Bay Park East on the south side of Marine Parade Drive to Park Lawn Road in Etobicoke

TRCA briefly managed part of Rouge Park before it was transferred to Parks Canada.

See also

Notes

References

  1. ^ Toronto and Region Conservation. "Chronology of Storm Events". Retrieved March 27, 2010.
  2. ^ "Naming of New Parkette - N/E corner of Yonge Street and Lawrence Avenue East "The George Milbrandt Parkette"". City of Toronto. August 23, 1999. Archived from the original on October 15, 2020. Retrieved October 10, 2020.
  3. ^ "The Skydome in Trinity Bellwoods Park has finally been recognized".
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