{"id":948,"date":"2024-08-09T15:31:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/?p=948"},"modified":"2025-06-03T18:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:15:05","slug":"victoria-park-ttc-subway-station-to-taylor-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/hiking-trail\/victoria-park-ttc-subway-station-to-taylor-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Park TTC subway station to Taylor Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A short photo tour from the Victoria Park TTC subway station north on Victoria Park Ave past the Dentonia Park Golf Course, and west along the Taylor-Massey Creek path to the parking lot at Dawes Road where the Taylor Creek Trail continues west. Short link: https:\/\/wholemap.com\/VicParkWest<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victoria Park subway station<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We start this ride at 777 Victoria Park Avenue – the Victoria Park TTC subway station<\/a> on the Bloor Danforth \/ Line 2. At this point the subway is a couple of blocks north of the Danforth. Exit at the far west side of the station, just beyond the buses. There is an indoor, secure Bicycle Parking Station<\/a> run by the City of Toronto here, and some public bike tools. There is also a paid, surface parking lot here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"
Map of local area outside the station.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Bike tools and secure bicycle station locker.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Heading north past the golf course to the trail<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We’ll turn to our right and head north up Victoria Park Ave. On our right is the Dentonia Park Golf Course<\/a> run by the City of Toronto, on the old estate of Walter and Susan Massey. On the left are the apartments and condos of Crescent Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Looking north up Victoria Park from the TTC subway station.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
North on Vic Park looking at Crescent Town Road.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Victoria Park is a busy enough road, so be careful, even on the wide shoulder. Past the light at Crescent Town Road you will see an opening in the guardrail and the entrance on the west side that leads down the long stairway (we’ll see a picture from the bottom, in a minute).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Top of park stairs on west side of Victoria Park.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Main entrance to the trail<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Instead we’ll continue north, with the golf course on our right, until we see the main entrance to Taylor Creek Park on the left at roughly 879 Victoria Park Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Dentonia Golf course on the east side of Victoria Park Ave.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Eastern most entrance to the Taylor Creek Park.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Start of trail at Victoria Park.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The trail circles back south, down a steep hill to a 90 degree turn at the bottom in the ravine at the river. Be careful, and remember down hill riders must stop and yield to up hill riders!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Top of hill, leaving the road.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Heading south down the steep hill.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
T intersection at the bottom of the hill.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once you are at the bottom of the hill, you can look to the left at the stairs up to the earlier park entrance we saw as we were heading north on Victoria Park. Directly ahead is the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"
Looking east up the stairs to Vic Park.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Looking straight ahead (south) to the creek.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We’ll turn to our right, and head west along the north side of the river through the ravine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"
Heading west along the main trail.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Construction in summer 2024.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"\"
Side trail heading north.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Another side trail.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The path was only recently re-opened in the summer of 2024, and at the time there was still work to be done along the path just east of the bridge where the path goes under Dawes Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Construction in summer 2024 – looking west to the bridge at Dawes Road.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Construction in summer 2024 – looking west to the bridge at Dawes Road.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
River to our left, standing under the Dawes Road bridge.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Parking lot and continuing west<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Once under the Dawes Road bridge you’ll cross over the river, and be at the parking lot at 200 Dawes Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Trail goes south over the river just west of Dawes Road.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Parking lot at 260 Dawes Road.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At this point you can continue west along Taylor Creek to the Elevated Wetlands path that we’ve also documented<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photos and description of the biking and walking multi-use trail west from Victoria Park to Dawes Road along the Taylor Creek. The description starts at the Victoria Park subway station, heading north past the Dentonia Park golf course and Crescent Town to the start of the trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,6,10,9],"tags":[12,24],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-don-river","category-hiking-trail","category-parks","category-toronto","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-hikes-bikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}