List of Toronto parks
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The following is a list of the parks in the city of Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. The appearance of Toronto's ravines
Toronto ravine system
The Toronto ravine system is one of the most distinctive features of the geography of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a network of deep ravines that form a large urban forest that runs throughout much of the city...

 was altered by floods caused by Hurricane Hazel
Hurricane Hazel
Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed as many as 1,000 people in Haiti before striking the United States near the border between North and South Carolina, as a Category 4 hurricane...

 in October 1954 and many of Toronto's parks were established in the resulting floodplain.

Municipal parks

The following parks are maintained by Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division
Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division
The City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division is the division of the Toronto municipal government responsible for city-owned parks, forests, and recreation centres...

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A

  • Acacia Park
  • Academy Soccer Field
  • Adams Park
  • Agincourt Park
  • Alamosa Park
  • Albert Crosland Parkette
  • Albert Standing Parkette
  • Albion Gardens Park
  • Allan Gardens
    Allan Gardens
    Allan Gardens is one of the oldest parks in Toronto, Canada. It has a conservatory , a playground and two fenced off-leash areas for dogs. It is operated by Toronto Parks who also run Centennial Park Conservatory...

  • Allan Lamport Stadium and Park
    Lamport Stadium
    Allan A. Lamport Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium on King Street West in the Liberty Village neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is used mostly for soccer. It was built in 1974 on the site of the notorious Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women, opened in the fall of 1975 and holds 9,600...

  • Alexander Muir
    Alexander Muir
    Alexander Muir was a Canadian songwriter, poet, soldier, and school headmaster. He was the composer of The Maple Leaf Forever, which he wrote in October 1867 to celebrate the Confederation of Canada.-Early life:...

     Memorial Gardens
  • Alexandra Park
  • Amesbury Park
  • Amsterdam
    Amsterdam
    Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

     Park
  • Apted Park
  • Ashbridge's Bay Park
  • Audrelane Park
  • Aura Lee Park

B

  • Bamburgh Park
  • Battery Park
  • Baycrest Park
  • Bayview Park
  • Bellbury Park
  • Ben Nobleman Park
  • Berry Road Park
  • Bert Robinson Park
  • Betty Sutherland
    Betty Sutherland
    Betty Sutherland was a member of the municipal council of North York, Ontario, Canada for Ward 14 from 1972 to 1985. She was married to Bill Sutherland, who was also a municipal politician. Their son, Paul Sutherland, is a former member of Toronto City Council.From 1979 to 1985, Mrs...

     Park
  • Birch Park
  • Birchmount Park and Stadium
  • Birkdale Ravine
  • Black Creek Parkland
  • Bloordale Park
  • Bluffer's Park
  • Blythwood Ravine Park
  • Bobbie Rosenfeld Park
  • Bond Park
  • Bratty Park
  • Brimley Woods
  • Broad Arces Park
  • Budapest Park
  • Budd Sugarman Park
  • Burnett Park
  • Burrow Hall Park

C

  • Caledonia Park
  • Canoe Landing Park
  • Canterbury Place Park
  • Carlton Park
  • Cathederal Bluffs Park
  • Cedar Brook Park
  • Cedarvale Park
    Cedarvale Park (Toronto)
    Cedarvale Park is a park located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bordered by very steep hills, and is located in the Cedarvale neighbourhood of Toronto. The Spadina subway line tunnels underneath it, between St. Clair West and Eglinton West stations...

  • Chalkfarm Park
  • Chartwell Park
  • Chatsworth Ravine
  • Chelsea Park
  • Chorley Park
  • Centennial Park
    Centennial Park (Toronto)
    Centennial Park is a large regional park located in westend Toronto, in the former city of Etobicoke. It is maintained by the City of Toronto Parks and Recreation.The park has a variety of features including:*Centennial Park Conservatory...

  • Central Park
  • Centre Park
  • Central Ravines, Belt Line and Gardens Discovery Walks
  • Charles Sauriol Conservation Reserve
  • Christie Pits Park
  • Clanton Park
  • Clarence Square
    Clarence Square
    Clarence Square is a small park in downtown Toronto where Wellington Street West meets Spadina Avenue. In the northwest corner of the park is a historical plaque honouring Alexander Dunn, born near the park, who was the first Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross...

  • Cliff Lumsdon Park
  • Cliffwood Park
  • Cloud Gardens
    Cloud Gardens
    Cloud Gardens or "Bay Adelaide Gardens and the Cloud Forest Conservatory" is a small park in downtown Toronto. It is on Richmond Street just east of Bay Street on half an acre of land.-Origin:...

     (Bay Adelaide Gardens and the Cloud Forest Conservatory)
  • Collingwood Park
  • Colonel Danforth Park
  • Colonel Samuel Smith Park
    Colonel Samuel Smith Park
    Colonel Samuel Smith Park is an urban park in Toronto and a former weekend get-away destination for Victorian Torontonians. The park has a variety of attractions, including a children's playground located only steps from Lake Ontario....

  • Colony Park
  • Coronation Park
  • Cotsworth Park
  • Coxwell Ravine Park
  • Cresthaven Park
  • Crothers' Woods
    Crothers' Woods
    Crothers' Woods is an area of the Don River valley in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately 25 ha in size and consists of woodland, meadows, wetlands, and an assortment of past and present municipal uses. The wooded area has been designated as an Environmentally Significant Area by the...

  • Cudia Park
  • Cummer Skateboard Park

D

  • David A. Balfour Park
  • Denfield Park
  • Dentonia Park and Golf Course
  • Derrydowns Park
  • Dieppe Park
  • Dixie Park
  • Donald Russell Memorial Park
  • Don Valley Brick Works
    Don Valley Brick Works
    The Don Valley Brick Works also known as Evergreen Brickworks is a former quarry and industrial site located in the Don River valley in Toronto, Ontario. Currently the buildings sit mostly unused while the quarry has been converted into a city park which includes a series of naturalized ponds...

  • Don Valley Golf Course
  • Don Valley Hills and Dales Discovery Walks
  • Dovercourt Park
  • Downsview Dells
  • Dufferin Grove Park
    Dufferin Grove Park
    Dufferin Grove Park is a park in the Dufferin Grove neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The park is located on the east side of Dufferin Street, south of Bloor Street West. It is located a block south of the Dufferin subway station and across the street from Dufferin Mall...

  • Duplex Parkette

E

  • Earl Bales Park, Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre and North York Ski Centre
  • Earlscourt Park
  • East Don Parklands
  • East Point Park
  • Eastview Park
  • Ed & Anne Mirvish Parkette
  • Edwards Gardens and Civic Gardens
  • Eglinton Flats
  • Eglinton Park
    Eglinton Park (Toronto)
    Eglinton Park is a public park located in the North Toronto neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a few blocks west of the Eglinton Subway Station. It is bounded on the south end by Eglinton Avenue West, on the north by Roselawn Aveunue...

  • Elizabeth Simcoe
    Elizabeth Simcoe
    Elizabeth Simcoe was an artist and diarist in colonial Canada. She was the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.-Biography:...

     Park
  • Empringham Park
  • Esther Lorrie Park
  • Etienne Brule Park
    Etienne Brule Park
    Etienne Brulé Park is located in the Humber River valley just north of Bloor Street West in Toronto, Ontario. It is named after Étienne Brûlé, an early French explorer in the Toronto area.- Characteristic features :...

  • E.T. Seton Park
    E.T. Seton Park
    E.T. Seton Park is a public park located in the North York neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The park is named after renowned naturalist, artist, and writer, Ernest Thompson Seton...

  • Exhibition Park

F-G

  • Fairbank Memorial Park
    Fairbank Memorial Park
    Fairbank Memorial Park is a park located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-Description:The park's official address is 2213 Dufferin Street. It is bordered on the west by Dufferin Street, on the north by Keywest Avenue, and on the south by Gibson Street. It consists of of ground, which contain the...

  • Farquarson Park
  • Finch Parkette
  • Flemington Park
  • Forestry Island Park
  • Fountainhead Park
  • Frank Stollery Parkette
  • Fundy Bay Park
  • Garnier Park
  • Garrison Creek Park
  • Garthdale Park
  • George Faludy Park
  • Glen Agar Park
  • Glen Cedar Park
  • Glendora Park
  • Glen Long Park
  • Glenn Gould
    Glenn Gould
    Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach...

     Park
  • Glen Rouge Park and Campgrounds
  • Goldhawk Park
  • G. Ross Lord Park
  • Grandravine Park
  • Grange Park
    Grange Park (Toronto)
    Grange Park is a prominent and well-used public park in downtown Toronto, located south of the Art Gallery of Ontario, beside the Ontario College of Art and Design University , and north of University Settlement House, at the north end of John Street...

  • Greenwood Park
  • Grey Abbey Trail and Ravine
  • Guildwood
    Guildwood
    Guildwood, also known as Guildwood Village, is a historic and residential neighbourhood in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located along the Scarborough Bluffs, south of Kingston Road, from Grey Abbey Trail in the east to the end of Sylvan Avenue in the west.-History:Guildwood village...

     Park and Inn
    Guild Inn
    The Guild Inn was an historic hotel in the Guildwood neighbourhood of Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario. It evolved out of Ranelagh Park, a 33 room, Arts and Crafts-style manor house built in 1914 for Colonel Harold Bickford atop the Scarborough Bluffs, that was in 1921 sold to the Roman Catholic...

  • Gwendolyn MacEwen
    Gwendolyn MacEwen
    Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen was a Canadian poet and novelist. A "sophisticated, wide-ranging and thoughtful writer," she published more than 20 books in her brief life. "A sense of magic and mystery from her own interests in the Gnostics, Ancient Egypt and magic itself, and from her wonderment at...

     Park

H

  • Habitant Park
  • Healey Willan
    Healey Willan
    Healey Willan, was an Anglo-Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including operas, symphonies, chamber music, a concerto, and pieces for band, orchestra, organ, and piano...

     Park
  • Hendon Park
  • High Park
    High Park
    High Park is a municipal park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It spans , and is a mixed recreational and natural park, with sporting facilities, cultural facilities, educational facilities, gardens, playgrounds and a zoo. One third of the park remains in a natural state, with a rare oak savannah ecology...

  • Hillcrest Park
  • Hillside Park
  • Highland Creek
    Highland Creek (Toronto)
    Highland Creek is a river in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, emptying into Lake Ontario at the eastern end of the Scarborough Bluffs. It is home to several species of fish including trout, carp, and bass. It is a meandering river which, like most rivers in Toronto , travels through a...

  • Home Smith Park
  • Howard Talbot Park
  • HTO Park
    HTO Park
    HTO is an urban beach in Toronto, Canada, that opened in 2007. It west of Harbourfront Centre, on Lake Ontario.-History:The park is built on quays that was once used by ships berthing in Toronto's Inner Harbour.The park consists of two sections:...

  • Hullmar Park
  • Humber Arboretum
  • Humber Bay Park
    Humber Bay Park
    Humber Bay Park is a waterfront park located in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada. The park consists of two landspits situated at the mouth of Mimico Creek. The park is on Lake Shore Boulevard West at Park Lawn Road. Humber Bay Park East, connecting to the Humber Bay neighbourhood that existed there...

  • Humberline Park
  • Humber Marshes
  • Humber Valley Golf Course
  • Humber River, Old Mill and Marshes Discovery Walks
  • Humewood Park
  • Huntsmill Park
  • Hupfield Park

I-K

  • Ireland Park
  • Iroqouis Park
  • Island Park
  • Jack Goodland Park
  • James Gardens
  • Jasper Park
  • Jean Sibelius
    Jean Sibelius
    Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...

     Square
  • Jesse Ketchum Park
  • Jimmie Simpson Park
  • John Tabor Park
  • June Rowlands
    June Rowlands
    June Rowlands was the 60th mayor of Toronto, Ontario, and the first woman to hold that office. She had previously been a long time city councillor, unsuccessful federal candidate, and chair of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Commission....

     Park (Davisville Park)
  • Keelesdale Park
  • Kew Gardens Park
    Kew Gardens (Toronto)
    Kew Gardens is a large park in The Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada. The park stretches from Queen Street East to the lakeshore at Kew Beach....

  • King's Mill Park

L

  • Lambton Woods
  • Lake Shore Boulevard Parklands
  • L'Amoreaux Park
  • Laughlin Park
  • Laura Park
  • Lawrence Park
  • Leaside Park
  • Leslie Park
  • Lillian Park
  • Lindylou Park
  • Linus Park
  • Lissom Park
  • Little Norway Park
    Little Norway Park
    Little Norway Park is a small park located in downtown Toronto, Canada at the southwest corner of Bathurst Street and Queen's Quay West.A totem pole is located near Queen's Quay West on the park property....

  • Littles Road Park
  • Loring-Wyle Parkette
  • Lower Don Parklands
  • Lower Highland Creek Park
  • Lytton Park

M

  • McAllister Park
  • McCleary Park
  • McDairnud Woods Park
  • McLevin Park
  • McNicoll Park
  • Magwood Park
  • Malta Park
  • Maple Leaf Forever Park
  • Maple Leaf Park
  • Marie Curtis Park
  • Marilyn Bell Park
  • Market Lane Park
  • Martin Goodman Trail
  • Maryvale Park
  • Matt Cohen Park
  • Metro Toronto Track and Field Centre
  • Milliken Park
  • Millwood Park
  • Mitchell Field Park
  • Monarch Park
    Monarch Park Stadium
    Monarch Park Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Toronto, Ontario located near the intersection of Hanson Street and Coxwell Avenue. Located next to Monarch Park Collegiate, in Monarch Park, it is used mostly for amateur soccer, baseball, and athletics principally by the Toronto District School...

  • Morningside Park
  • Morningview Trail Ravine
  • Moore Park Ravine
  • Moorevale Park
  • Morningside Park
  • Moss Park
  • Muirlands Park

N-O

  • Natal Park
  • Neilson Park
  • Newtonbrook Park
  • Nicol MacNicol Parkette
  • North Park
  • North Kipling Park
  • Northwood Park
  • Oak Park
  • Olympia Park
  • Olympic Island Park
  • Orchard Park
  • Oriole Park
  • Owen Park

P-R

  • Palace Pier Park
  • Palmerston Gardens
  • Pantry Park
  • Park Drive Reservation Land
  • Park Lawn Park
  • Pinetree Park
  • Pinto Park
  • Pine Point Park
    Pine Point Park
    Pine Point Park is a park in Toronto, Ontario, located on the east end junction of Allenby Avenue and Hadrian Drive, near the intersection of Highway 401 and Islington Avenue. The park itself is bordered by Albion Road to the west, Highway 401 to the south, and Humber River to the east.Pine Point...

  • Port Royal Park
  • Prince of Wales Park
  • Princess Margaret Park
  • Queen's Greenbelt
  • Ramsden Park
  • Raymore Park
    Raymore Drive
    Raymore Drive is a mostly residential street in the Weston neighbourhood of Toronto in the Canadian province of Ontario. It runs next to the Humber River. On October 15, 1954, the area was severely affected by Hurricane Hazel. When the Humber River burst its banks and tore away a footbridge, the...

  • Rennie Park
  • Riverdale Park
    Riverdale Park (Toronto)
    Riverdale Park is a large park spanning the Lower Don River, Toronto, Ontario, Canada between Cabbagetown to the west and Broadview Avenue in Riverdale to the east. Recreational fields for soccer, baseball, and Ultimate are available on both sides of the river with a swimming pool, tennis courts...

  • Roding Park
  • Rosebank Park
  • Rosetta McLain Gardens
  • Rouge Beach Park
  • Rouge Park East
  • Roundhouse Park
  • Rowntree Mills Park
  • Runnymede Park
    Runnymede Park
    Runnymede Park is a medium-sized public park located in The Junction neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, one block east of Runnymede Road. Its southern boundary is the West Toronto Yard used by the Canadian Pacific Railway, its northern boundary is Ryding Avenue, while a laneway and parking...


S

  • St. Andrew's Market and Playground
    St. Andrew's Market and Playground
    St. Andrew's Market and Playground is a small park in downtown Toronto. It is located at the northwest corner of Brant St and Adelaide St W.It has recently been updated with a new playground with sand for children that is surrounded by a short fence...

  • St. James Park
  • St. Lucia Park
  • Scarborough Heights Park
  • Scarlett Mills Park
  • Scarlett Woods Golf Course
  • Sculpture Gardens
  • Sentinel Park
  • Serena Gundy Park
  • Sergeant Ryan Russell Parkette (renamed from Dupont Parkette in July 2011)
  • Shawnee Park
  • Sherbourne Commons
  • Sherwood Park
  • Sheppard East Park
  • Skymark Park
  • Silvercreek Park
  • Silverview Park
  • Sir Casimir Gzowski Park
  • Sir Winston Churchill Park
  • Smythe Park
  • Snake Island Park
  • Snider Parkette
  • Snowhill Park
  • Sonya's Park
  • South Humber Park
  • South Marine Drive Park
  • Stan Wadlow Park
  • Stanley Park
  • Stratford Park
  • Sugar Beach
    Sugar Beach
    Sugar Beach is an urban beach park in Toronto, Canada, that opened in 2010. It is located across from Redpath Sugar Refinery in Toronto's eastern East Bayfront. Like HTO Park, the beach has no direct access to the Lake Ontario and is a landlocked beach....

  • Summerlea Park
  • Sunnybrook Park and Riding Stables
  • Sunnyside Park
  • Sun Row Park
  • Sylvan Park and Gates Gully

T-V

  • Talwood Park
  • Tam O'Shanter Golf Course
  • Taylor Creek Park
  • Terry Fox
    Terry Fox
    Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox , was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research...

     Park
  • Thistletown Area
  • Thomson Memorial Park
    Thomson Memorial Park
    Thomson Memorial Park is a mid size park in Scarborough, Ontario, and is the site of the Scarborough Historical Museum and includes historical houses of the founding family of the former city, the Thomson's, from the 1790s; more Thomson houses are found on the northern edge of the park on St....

  • Thomson Riley Park
  • Tip Top Park
  • Todmorden Mills Park
  • Toronto Music Garden
  • Toronto Islands
    Toronto Islands
    The Toronto Islands are a chain of small islands in the city of Toronto, Ontario. Comprising the only group of islands in the western part of Lake Ontario, the Toronto Islands are located just offshore from the city centre, and provide shelter for Toronto Harbour...

  • Town Hall Square
  • Trace Mane Park
  • Trinity Bellwoods Park
    Trinity Bellwoods Park
    Trinity Bellwoods Park is located on the west side of downtown Toronto, Ontario Canada, 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...

  • Trinity Square
    Trinity Square (Toronto)
    Trinity Square is a public square in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by the Toronto Eaton Centre, an office building known as Bell Trinity Square, and the Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel. The square's primary feature is the Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity...

     and Labyrinth Park
  • Valleyfield Park
  • Varna Park
  • Viewmount Park

W-Y

  • Wallace-Emerson Park
  • Wanless Park
  • Washington Street Parkette
  • Waterfront Park
  • Warden Woods Park
  • Wedgewood Park
  • Wells Hill Park
  • Wellsworth Park
  • Wellesley Park
  • Wenderley Park
  • West Don Park
  • West Humber Parkland
  • Weston Lions Park
  • West Rouge Park
  • Westview Greenbelt
  • Western Ravines and Beaches Discovery Walks
  • White Haven Park
  • Wickson Trail Park
  • Wilket Creek Park
  • Willesden Park
  • Willowdale Park
  • Wilmington Park
  • Windfields Park
  • Withrow Park
    Withrow Park
    Withrow Park is a park in the Riverdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Laid out and constructed in the 1910s, at the same time that the surrounding community was built, Withrow Park is among Toronto's large multi-purpose parks...

  • Winchester Park
  • Woodbine Park
  • Woodbine Beach Park
  • Wychwood Barns
    Wychwood Barns
    Wychwood Barns is a park in midtown Toronto. It contains housing for artists, public green space, a greenhouse, a farmer's market, a beach volleyball court, and office space for many local community groups...

     Park
  • York Mills Valley Park
  • Yorkdale Park
  • Yorkminister Park
  • Yorkville Park

Provincial parks

There are three provincial managed parks in the City of Toronto and only one is a natural park.

The following parks are owned by the Government of Ontario
Government of Ontario
The Government of Ontario refers to the provincial government of the province of Ontario, Canada. Its powers and structure are set out in the Constitution Act, 1867....

:
  • Ontario Place
    Ontario Place
    Ontario Place is a multiple use entertainment and seasonal waterfront park attraction located in Toronto, Ontario, and owned by the Crown in Right of Ontario. It is administered as an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture. Located on the shore of Lake Ontario, just south of...

     - artificially constructed amusement park and entertainment facility, on the waterfront south of Exhibition Place
    Exhibition Place
    Exhibition Place is a mixed-use district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by the shoreline of Lake Ontario, just west of downtown. The 197–acre area includes expo, trade, and banquet centres, theatre and music buildings, monuments, parkland, sports facilities, and a number of civic, provincial,...

  • Queen's Park - park setting on the south and north ends of the Ontario Legislative Building Building, not to be confused with Queen's Greenbelt in North York
  • Rouge Park
    Rouge Park
    Rouge Park will become an urban national park located along the border of Toronto and Pickering, Ontario, Canada. It will be Canada's first national park within a municipality....

     - natural preserve section south of Steeles Avenue
    Steeles Avenue
    Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western Greater Toronto Area from Milborough Townline in Halton Region east to the Scarborough-Pickering limit. It runs for within...

     to Lake Ontario
    Lake Ontario
    Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south by the American state of New York. Ontario, Canada's most populous province, was named for the lake. In the Wyandot language, ontarío means...

     shoreline

National parks

The following parks are owned by the federal government of Canada (and not part of the National Parks system).
  • Downsview Park
    Downsview Park
    Downsview Park is a former Canadian Forces Base in the community of Downsview in Toronto, Canada. It contains about 231.5 hectares of land, of which more than 130 hectares are earmarked for traditional parkland, recreational and cultural amenities...

     - converted military base CFB Downsview
    CFB Downsview
    Canadian Forces Base Downsview is a former Canadian Forces base in Toronto, Ontario. The airfield is currently operated as Toronto/Downsview Airport.-RCAF Station Downsview:...

  • Harbourfront
    Harbourfront
    Harbourfront is a neighbourhood on the northern shore of Lake Ontario within the downtown core of the city of Toronto, Canada. Part of the Toronto Waterfront, Harbourfront extends west from Yonge Street to Bathurst Street along Queen's Quay. East of Yonge to Parliament St...

     - waterfront promenade and urban park amongst residential and commercial development along Queen's Quay fron Yonge Street west to Bathurst Street

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority or Office de protection de la nature de Toronto et de la région is one of 36 conservation authorities in Ontario, Canada...

 (TRCA) (an agency of the provincial government
Government of Ontario
The Government of Ontario refers to the provincial government of the province of Ontario, Canada. Its powers and structure are set out in the Constitution Act, 1867....

) is one of 36 conservation authorities in Ontario, Canada with a jurisdiction covering 3467 square kilometres over nine different watersheds
Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

. The TRCA operates a number of conservation areas in the Toronto region, including two within the City of Toronto limits:
  • Black Creek Pioneer Village
    Black Creek Pioneer Village
    Black Creek Pioneer Village is a historic site in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, just west of York University and southeast of the Jane and Steeles intersection. It overlooks Black Creek, a tributary of the Humber River. The village is a recreation of life in 19th-century Ontario and gives an idea how...

  • Tommy Thompson Park (Leslie Street Spit)
    Leslie Street Spit
    The Leslie Street Spit, or officially the Outer Harbour East Headland, is a man-made headland in Toronto, Ontario, extending from the city's east end in a roughly southwesterly direction into Lake Ontario. It is about 5 km long....

  • 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.

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