Public walk – Boxing Day on the Spit

Date: Dec 26, 2025 at 10:00
Meeting Location: Tommy Thompson Park entrance pavilion

Join us on Friday, December 26th, at 10:00 am for a 3-hour, 8 km circular nature walk on mostly unpaved and uneven surfaces with some gentle slopes. No stairs.

Leader: Charles Bruce-Thompson

Location: Leslie Street Spit

Description: Starting at the park entrance, we will walk along the spine road to Cell One, then continue to Cell Three before heading west to the pedestrian bridge. We’ll head back via the (now closed) banding station and Embayment Three. Participants can drop out and return easily at any point, should they so wish.

Brush up on your winter bird identification skills – something interesting always shows up on these walks.

Details: A 3-hour, 8 km circular nature walk on mostly unpaved and uneven surfaces with some gentle slopes. No stairs.

Meeting Spot: Tommy Thompson Park entrance pavilion

Getting There: From Union Station, take the 114 bus to Commissioners and Leslie and walk south to the park entrance. Or take the 83 Jones bus from Jones Ave and Danforth Ave to Leslie and Commissioners. Free parking off Unwin Street.

Accessibility: The unpaved section of the walk can be uneven and muddy

Washrooms: At the beginning/end and along the way

What to Bring: Binoculars and something to munch on

Other Information: It’s winter, so dress appropriately

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.