High Park

The Details

High Park is home to a diverse number of residents: families gravitate to its single-family homes while singles and couples are attracted by its many rental opportunities. The neighbourhood boasts several highly regarded schools, including Humberside Collegiate, and High Park, Toronto’s largest public green space, is arguably its biggest draw. Gently rolling hills, winding streets and towering oak trees, as well, all make for a very pretty place to live.

Architecture / Homes

High Park’s winding, tree-lined streets are filled with distinctive brick Victorian, Edwardian and Tudor-style homes built largely during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Many of them, because of their size, have been divided into multiple-family dwellings. Typical features of a High Park home include leaded and stained-glass windows, lush wood trims, French doors, hardwood floors and fireplaces.

Amenities

The High Park neighbourhood  includes the rolling, expansive green space of High Park (the largest in the city at 400 acres) as an anchor. Leisure opportunities abound, and the special kind of calm that emanates from such ample green space is a unique quality that isn’t always easy to find downtown. High Park features a zoo, picnic areas, the waterfront, restaurants, theatre or playgrounds. And just to the west are the shopping amenities of Bloor West Village, which have everything you need to engage and support family life.

Getting Around

The Bloor-Danforth subway line has three stations that serve the High Park neighbourhood: Runnymede, High Park and Keele. Drivers are approximately five minutes from the Queensway, which connects commuters to Lake Shore Boulevard and the Gardiner Expressway.