Public Walk – Subway Series: Victoria Park to Main Street Station

Date: Nov 02, 2024 at 10:00
Meeting Location: In the entrance to Victoria Park Subway Station

Join us on Saturday, November 2nd at 10:00 am for a 4 hour, 6 to 10 km linear walk over mostly unpaved and uneven surfaces with both gentle and steep slopes. There are stairs and some spots may be muddy and slippery.

Leader: Joanne Doucette

Meeting Spot: In the entrance to Victoria Park Subway Station

Walk Details: A 4-hour, 6 to 10 km linear walk over mostly unpaved and uneven surfaces with both gentle and steep slopes. There are stairs and some spots may be muddy and slippery

Washrooms: Not available

Walk description: We will be walking from the Victoria Park subway station to Taylor Creek Park and along the trail by the stream west to Barrington Avenue and from there south to the Main Street Subway Station. This is a general nature walk, looking for birds, talking about plants and trees, with some of the history of Taylor Creek Park and the Woodbine Golf Course that used to be there.

Other information: This is a public walk, one of a series usually held on the first Saturday of the month. The walk goes rain, snow or shine so dress for the weather.

Park map: https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/parks-recreation/places-spaces/parks-and-recreation-facilities/parks-and-community-recreation-centres-map/#location=260%20Dawes%20Rd&lat=43.6998842885&lng=-79.3105665855&zoom=11

For more information:

https://www.toronto.ca/data/parks/prd/facilities/complex/29/index.html

https://www.ontariotrails.on.ca/trail/taylor-creek-trail

https://torontonaturestewards.org/sites/taylor-creek-park/

https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1497179

https://www.facebook.com/groups/319742575167756/

 

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.