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A Stroll through High Park

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A Stroll through High Park

Length4.3 mi
Elev. Gain574 ft
Est. Steps10000

Forest

Lake

River

Scenic views

Wild flowers

Historic site

Wild life

Bathroom

Playground

Bugs

Steep slope

Created by Sonia
Introduction
A Stroll through High Park is a 4.3 mile (10,000-step) route located near Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This route has an elevation gain of about 574 ft and is rated as medium. Find the best walking trails near you in Pacer App.
Once you get out of High Park station, you follow the path into the park. There are high hills and slopes downwards to the cherry blossoms and lake and a steep hill/staircase to climb up to go back to the higher ground. The zoo is also down a slope/staircase. A pool, sporting areas, playground and off-leash trail are great amenities. There is a area around the larger cherry blossom forest where a small, serene stream is. Very peaceful in that area. Overall, a nice, scenic walk.
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High Park

Park
High Park is a municipal park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It spans 161 hectares (400 acres), 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.

Colborne Lodge

Tourist Attraction
Colborne Lodge is a historical museum located in an 1836 home in Toronto's High Park. John George Howard, an architect, engineer, and prominent Toronto citizen built this house, which became the property of the city following his death in 1890.

Parkdale—High Park

Place
Parkdale—High Park is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979. It was created during the 1976 electoral boundaries redistribution from parts of Parkdale, High Park—Humber Valley, Davenport and Spadina districts. As of the October 19, 2015, Canadian general election, the current Member of Parliament (MP) is Liberal member Arif Virani.

Parkdale—High Park (provincial electoral district)

Place
Parkdale—High Park is a provincial electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, created in 1996 and represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. It is located in the Toronto's west-end, bordering on the lakefront to the south, the Humber River to the west, and the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks essentially defining its northern and eastern borders.

High Park station

Building
High Park is a subway station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth of the Toronto subway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located just north of Bloor Street West, spanning the block east of Quebec Avenue to High Park Avenue. It opened in 1968 as part of the westerly extension from Keele to Islington station. Wi-Fi service is available at this station.

High Park Loop

Building
High Park Loop is a turning loop and the western terminus of the 506 Carlton streetcar line of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) in Toronto. Streetcars enter westbound straight from Howard Park Avenue across to the west side of Parkside Drive and into the loop at the east entrance to High Park, turn anticlockwise through the loop, and return eastbound through the intersection.

High Park Forest School

Place
High Park Forest School is a former special school in High Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was a school founded to provide a boost to children who were tubercular or had other physical detriments. Today, it is an outdoor environmental education facility run by a local non-profit organization called the High Park Nature Centre.

High Park Area 15

Tourist Attraction

High Park Zoo

Tourist Attraction

High Park Area 14

Tourist Attraction
Comments
🚶🏻‍♂️WLKN 🇨🇦
2019/10/09
Used to ride my bike 🚲 to High park from Dufferin and St Clair all summer long as a child. Great memories 👍🏻
Route Details

Length

4.3 mi

Elev. Gain

574 ft

Est. Steps

10000
Created by
Sonia
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