Public Walk – Bob Hunter Memorial Park

Date: Jun 3, 2025 at 10:00
Meeting Location: Parking area at 7277 14th Avenue, Pickering

Join us on Tuesday, June 3rd at 10:00 AM for a 3-hour, 8 km circular nature walk on mostly paved surfaces with some steep slopes. No stairs.

Leader: Charles Bruce-Thompson

Walk Location: Bob Hunter Memorial Park, part of the Rouge National Urban Park

Meeting Point: Parking area at 7277 14th Avenue, Pickering

Getting There: From Parks Canada website: From Union Station, take GO Transit Bus 71 towards Uxbridge. Get off at YMCA Boulevard and Kennedy Road. Ride York Region Transit Bus 8 towards Steeles Avenue (2 stops). Get off at Kennedy Road at 14th Avenue. Transfer to York Regional Transit Bus 14 towards Copper Creek Eastbound. Exit 14th Avenue at Vettise Avenue. Walk 20 minutes via 14th Avenue to Bob Hunter Memorial Park. (i.e. try to get a ride). Free Parking.

Walk Details: A 3-hour, 8 km circular nature walk on mostly paved surfaces with some steep slopes. No stairs.

Accessibility: Not wheelchair accessible. Some narrow, unpaved trails that are prone to muddy puddles.

Washrooms: At the beginning and end

Walk description: A pleasant walk through a variety of landscapes: river valleys, open meadows, deciduous and cedar woodlands and recent plantings. A good selection of native plants. Exciting bird observations are always a possibility – but nothing is guaranteed.

What to Bring: Lunch & binoculars

Other information: There are vehicle charging stations for anyone needing one.

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.