Public walk – Subway Series: Trees of Rosedale and Yorkville

Date: Sep 06, 2025 at 10:00
Meeting Location: Outside the Sherbourne Subway Station on Sherbourne Street

Join us on Saturday, September 6th at 10:00 am for a 3-hour, 5 km linear nature and heritage walk.

We will be walking north on Sherbourne Street over the Rosedale Valley to Crescent Road and west to Yonge Street at the Rosedale Subway Station. We will walk west through Ramsden Park and then south through Yorkville to finish at the Yonge Station. (Ramsden Park is the site of the lost Aura Lea Golf Club. The Yorkville Golf Club, also long gone, was further north.) We will talk about the natural and built history of the area, and play Tree Bingo.

Leader: Joanne Doucette

Location: Rosedale and Yorkville

Meeting Point: Outside the Sherbourne Subway Station on Sherbourne Street

Details: A 3-hour, 5 km linear nature and heritage walk on mostly paved, fairly flat surfaces. No stairs.

Getting There: Easy access by subway. Parking is expensive and sometimes hard to find.

Washrooms: Yes

What to Bring: Water, hat, sunscreen or umbrella (depending on weather), field guide (or app), good walking shoes

Other Information: Slow-paced ramble with a break in Ramsden Park. If people want to drop out at the Rosedale subway station is en route.

This walk is only one of more than 140 that TFN will host this year alone! TFN members enjoy a complete listing of walks in our newsletter. Not a member? Learn more about the benefits of membership now!

Please tag any photos you take on this walk with #TFNWalk so that we can all live vicariously through your lens.

Toronto Field Naturalists wishes to acknowledge this Land through which we walk. For thousands of years, the Land has been shared by the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe. Toronto is situated on the Land within the Toronto Purchase, Treaty 13, the traditional and treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is also part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, a covenant agreement between Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Wendat peoples and allied nations to peaceably share the land and all its resources. Today, the Land is home to peoples of numerous nations. We are all grateful to have the opportunity to continue to care for and share the beauty of this Land.