High Park - Access

Access

High Park is accessible by TTC:

  • The High Park and Keele subway stations on the Bloor-Danforth subway line are to the north of the park.
  • The 506 streetcar line has a terminus at the east side of the park, at Parkside Drive and Howard Park Avenue.
  • The 80 Queensway bus operates from the Keele station, south along Parkside Drive, along the east side of the park.
  • To the south, the 501 streetcar stops at Colborne Lodge Road and The Queensway, just south of Colborne Lodge.
  • The 30B Lambton bus operates from Kipling and High Park stations into the park from Victoria Day to Labour Day.

Automobile access is allowed to most of the park, although several roads are closed to vehicular traffic. Parking lots exist at the Bell playground and zoo, at Colborne Lodge, at Grenadier Cafe, High Park pool and the north-western children's playground, as well as along some roads. On Sundays in summer, the roads are closed to traffic. Colborne Lodge Road does not allow through traffic from The Queensway beyond the parking lot for the lodge.

People can walk or bicycle to the park along roads and streets and enter from the neighbourhood. They can take the Martin-Goodman Trail along Lake Ontario to points south of the park.

From spring to fall a "trackless train" — a tractor that tows several wagons decorated to look like a red and white train — is operated making a tour of the park every 30 minutes, stopping near Bloor Street, the north-western playground, west of the Grenadier Cafe, at Grenadier Pond, south of Colborne Lodge and at the Bell playground.

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