High Park South of Bloor
High Park is Toronto’s largest park, and one of it’s most beautiful. Rich with gardens, hiking trails, and recreational facilities, it spreads over almost 400 lush and rolling acres. Alongside the park are some of Toronto’s grandest, and most charming avenues. Wide Boulevards graced by majestic turn-of-the-century homes give way to winding streets with houses built in the Edwardian Tudor and Victorian style. Sidewalks leading to playgrounds,shops,restaurants and fruit markets, are are shared with people enjoying all that the neighborhood offers.
This wonderful area, which is the Southern High Park neighborhood hood, runs south of Bloor St, between Parkside Drive and Roncesvalles Avenue. Close to Bloor West Village,known for its European Delis, specialty food shops and boutiques,the southern part of High Park also benefits from the ecclectic shops and diverse dining of Roncesvalles Village. Just south of the park is Lake Ontario, and miles of miles lakefront cycling and beaches.
Highly regarded for it’s primary schools, the area is full of children, and is very family oriented. Kids, and their parents, benefit from the libraries, swimming pools, skating rinks, as well as the strong sense of community.
And of course, there is the park itself. Lovely in every season, the park offers everything from the stunning cherry blossoms trees of spring, to the wintery calm of cross-country skiing. In the playground is a community-built area, full of fun stuff: castles, ropes, swings, ladders, slides and artwork by kids and adult volunteers . The sprawling zoo always seems to have a newborn in one of the paddocks. Shakespeare, performed in the park, attracts loyal patrons year after year, to experience theatre under the stars. Tennis courts, ravines, lofty shade trees, hiking trails, picnicking, and hidden bridges can all be found in the park. All within the city, and within a few minutes walk from anywhere in the Southern High Park neighborhood. | 
