Public Walk – Subway Series: Chester to Broadview, Tree Bingo

Date: Jun 7, 2025 at 10:00
Meeting Location: Chester Subway Station

Join us on Saturday, June 7th at 10:00 AM for a 2.5-hour, 6 km linear nature and heritage walk along mostly paved flat surfaces with some gentle slopes. No stairs.

Leader: Joanne Doucette

Walk Location: Riverdale

Meeting Point: Outside the entrance to the Chester Subway Station on the west side of Chester Avenue north of Danforth Avenue

Getting There: Easy access by subway, parking nearby

Walk Details: 2.5 hour, 6 km linear nature and heritage walk along mostly paved flat surfaces with some gentle slopes. No stairs.

Accessibility: We may be on grass in some areas.

Washrooms: At the beginning, along the way, and at the end

Walk description: TREE BINGO is a fun game that blends a bit of science with interesting and unusual facts about some of Toronto’s trees. Go exploring to see how many of these common species can be found as we walk through Riverdale!

What to Bring: Field guide to trees, binoculars. A cell phone with a plant identification app will be useful.

Other information: No pets please. Service animals are welcome.

Suggested reading & Free downloads:

https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/9765-Street-Tree-Brochure.pdf

https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/965e-City-Planning-Trees-Shrubs-Vines-of-Toronto-Biodiversity-Series.pdf

https://torontofieldnaturalists.org/the-connected-naturalist-toronto-tree-maps/

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.