Public Walk – High Park to Old Mill

Date: Apr 16, 2026 at 10:00
Meeting Location: High Park TTC main entrance

Join us on Thursday, April 16th at 10:00 am for a 3-hour, 8 km linear nature and heritage walk.

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Co-leaders: Richard Longley & David Creelman

Location: High Park – Lake Shore – Humber Valley – Old Mill

Description: Nature and history walk. Nature: whatever we can find in mid-April. History: Howards of High Park, Royal visit of 1939 and opening of QEW; Hurricane Hazel; Hume Smith and the creation of Old Mill; Teiaiagon First Nations village on the Humber at Baby Point.

Details: A 3-hour, 8 km linear nature and heritage walk on mostly paved surfaces with some gentle slopes. Some stairs

Getting There: Subway line 1 to High Park

Washrooms: Not available

What to Bring: Camera, binoculars, water, munchies

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.