Grange Park Toronto

Grange Park is a prominent and well-used public park in downtown Toronto, located directly behind the Art Gallery of Ontario, beside the Ontario College of Art and Design , and in front of the University Settlement. Grange Park features a wading pool, children's playground, and numerous trees and walkways. Historically, it was the backyard of "The Grange" that eventually was expanded and became the Art Gallery of Ontario. (from wikipedia)

Rouge Park Toronto

Rouge Park is a large natural environment park in Canada's most urbanized area, located in east Toronto. The lands now in the park were once home to resorts and cottages from the late 1800s to the 1950s. It is the only large valley land area in Toronto where people can still enjoy a wilderness experience, since other rivers in the city are now surrounded by urban development. People can still live a rural life, and even farm in the park. It is the only remaining countryside landscape within the city of Toronto.

Guild Inn Toronto

The Guild Inn is an historic hotel in Guildwood, a neighbourhood of Scarborough, Ontario. Built in 1914 as Ranelagh Park for Colonel Harold Child Bickford. The Georgian-style home has 33 rooms.
In 1921, the home was sold to the Foreign Missionary Society of the Roman Catholic Church and renamed China Mission College. During World War II, it became The Guild of All Arts.

Downsview Park Toronto

Downsview Park is a former Canadian Forces Base in Downsview. The Downsview Lands consist of 260.6 hectares of land in the northwest portion of the City of Toronto and the geographic centre of the Greater Toronto Area. These lands were previously used as the air force base CFB Downsview until 1994 when the federal government announced the closure of the base. It was also announced that the lands were to be held in perpetuity and in trust as a unique urban recreational green space for the enjoyment of future generations. The mandate to create the urban recreational green space was given to Parc Downsview Park Inc. Downsview Park consists of 231.5 hectares to which PDP has title. Of this total, more than 130 hectares are earmarked for traditional parkland, recreational and cultural amenities.

Centennial Park Toronto

Centennial Park is a large regional park located in westend Toronto. It is maintained by the City of Toronto Parks and Recreation.
The park has a variety of features including, etobicoke Olympium, a large athletic centre that was built in 1975, Centennial Park Snow Centre, a small alpine skiing hill. It features one t-bar and a conveyor lift, serving one intermediate slope, one beginner slope, and a snowboard slope. It is one of two ski hills located within the boundaries of Toronto, the other being the North York Ski Center, Centennial Hill (formerly Mount Garbage), a hill that was the site of as a municipal dump and the south end is used as a transfer station, Centennial Park Arena, go-cart track, golf course, botanical gardens, picnic areas, soccer fields, baseball diamonds.

Humber Bay Park Toronto

Humber Bay Park is a waterfront park located in Etobicoke. The park consists of two landspits situated at the mouth of Mimico Creek. The park is on Lake Shore Boulevard West near Park Lawn Road. Humber Bay Park East is 19 ha and Humber Bay Park West is 120 ha.

High Park Toronto

High Park is the largest park in Toronto. It spans 161 hectares, 1.61 km² in the city's west end. It stretches south from Bloor Street West, west of Parkside Drive and east of Ellis Park Road and Grenadier Pond south to The Queensway, just north of Lake Ontario. It is a mixed recreational and natural park, with sporting facilities, cultural facilities, educational facilities, gardens, playgrounds and a zoo.

Toronto Islands

The Toronto Islands are a chain of small islands in Lake Ontario. The islands are located just offshore from the Canadian city of Toronto, and provide shelter for Toronto Harbour. The islands are a popular recreational destination, and are home to a small residential community and to the Toronto Island Airport. They are connected to the mainland by several ferry services.
The islands comprise the largest urban car-free community in North America, though some service vehicles are permitted.

Christie Pits Park Toronto

Christie Pits Park, originally Willowvale Park, is a Toronto public recreational area. The surrounding area has a significant Korean and Latin American community.
The park has an area of 8.9 ha, about half of which is grassed picnic areas, the rest being various sports fields. Sports facilities on the site include three baseball diamonds, basketball courts, bocce field, a soccer/rugby/football field, ice rink, splash pad and pool. It is home to the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team, which plays in the Intercounty Baseball League.
The park was named after the Christie Sand Pits which were on the location until the early 1900s.

Trinity Bellwoods Park Toronto

Trinity Bellwoods Park is located on the west side of downtown Toronto, bordered by Queen Street West on the south and Dundas Street on the north. The western boundary of the park is Crawford Street, running north to within a short block of Dundas, where the park extends further west several hundred feet past the Crawford Street Bridge to Shaw Street. Most of the park's area lies in the original Garrison Creek ravine and this creek, now a buried city storm sewer, still flows beneath the park from the northwest to the southeast corners. (from wikipedia)

Riverdale Park Toronto

Riverdale Park is a large park spanning the Lower Don River, Toronto. Recreational fields for soccer, baseball, and Ultimate are available on both sides of the river with a swimming pool, tennis courts and outdoor hockey rink to the northeast, as well as a running track in the centre.
At the south-east corner is Bridgepoint Hospital and a monument to Sun Yat-Sen. Immediately to the west of the park in Cabbagetown is Riverdale Farm a city operated, publicly accessible farm.
The land on the east side of the Don River was originally owned by John Scadding, one of the early settlers to Toronto and the estate manager and clerk for John Graves Simcoe, Governor of Upper Canada. A walk along Broadview Avenue shows the evidence of this in the form of green exhaust pipes to vent the methane gas from the former dump beneath the park.
In 1990, a grassy slope on the eastern side was planted with trees. This was the first public event hosted by the Task Force to Bring Back the Don. The slope is now moderately forested with trees averaging 3-4 metres in height. (from wikipedia)

Queen's Park Toronto

Queen's Park is an urban park in the Downtown, Toronto. Opened in 1860 by Edward, Prince of Wales, it was named in honour of Queen Victoria. Queen's Park is the name of a street and a subway station, as described below.

Allan Gardens Toronto

Allan Gardens is a park and indoor botanical garden in Toronto. The park, one of the city's oldest, is bounded by Jarvis Street on the west, Sherbourne Street on the east, Carlton Street on the north and Gerrard Street East on the south.
In the centre of the park is a Victorian conservatory known as the Palm House, built in 1909 to replace the pavilion burned in 1902. Rare tropical plants from all over the globe are nurtured inside. The trees in the park represent the northern tip of the Carolinian forest with species such as black cherry, American beech, red oak, sugar maple and sassafras. Most are over one hundred years old. The park is home to the city's largest flock of pigeons, a roving peregrine falcon and a statue of Robert Burns. Admission is free.

Moss Park Toronto

Moss Park is in east of downtown Toronto. More typically Torontonians refer to Moss Park as only comprising the large housing projects that exist between Parliament and Sherbourne south of Dundas. The rest of the area known to the city as Moss Park includes the Distillery District, the Garden District, and Corktown.
Moss Park was originally the heart of Toronto's industrial area, home to large factories and the densely packed homes of the workers they employed. The row houses of Corktown, like those of nearby Cabbagetown, have also largely been refurbished and are in great demand.