Love it! What a wonderfully accessible trail that nearly all riders will enjoy. We started the…read moretrail at Mimico Waterfront Park and biked to the Toronto Harbourfront, then on to the Distillery District. There are plenty of interesting places to stop along the way: Ontario Place, several beaches and parks, and of course you can easily go to the CN Tower, Ripley's Aquarium of Canada, Saint Lawrence Market, take a ferry to the Toronto Islands, etc. We were lucky enough to enjoy some of the Redpath Waterfront Festival during our outing and got to see Thomas Too the Tugboat. If you like to bike, I can't imagine why you would not take the time to enjoy such a wonderful bike path. If I live in Toronto I would make ample use of it.

My friend and I were taking a leisurely stroll on The Boardwalk at The Beaches when the midday sun…read moremade it too hot for comfort. We walked over to the Martin Goodman trail, which parallels The Boardwalk, to avoid the heat. It's a lovely, winding trail shaded by trees. The bad thing is that the trail is also popular with many bikers, so you have to share the path. Beach on one side, parks and eateries on the other: what's not to love?

Discovered this very cool new park in the Portlands area completely by accident. It's just off…read moreLeslie Street as you're riding from Lakeshore toward Tommy Thompson Park (the Leslie spit). It's a hidden, a little out of the way and still undiscovered, so we got a mostly private beach experience. The beach is new and well designed. It has gorgeous clean white sand on it. There are a few Muskoka chairs and 1-2 picnic tables scattered here and there. Not much shade, only a couple of trees, so bring your own umbrellas if you want to spend time here. A creative blend of beach and industrial, with a cool raised concrete structure that melds with the landscape and offers a view over the beach, the canal basin and the Toronto skyline from a distance. Lots of bike parking, garbage cans, a water fountain, a bike repair station, plus a small area with some nice landscaping. A great stop-off point between Woodbine and Cherry beaches.

This community centre is a busy one! Whenever I've been inside there is always a tangible bustle…read morethat gives great insight into the area and its diversity. I have swam in both the indoor and outdoor pools and they are among my favourites. The indoor one has interesting sight lines with windows on both the Dundas street side and the opposite side with its unique wedge shape. The outdoor pool is one of the old style gigantic ones where you can almost get lost in the middle of it due to the length. The library is a great place to hang out with floor to ceiling windows lining the side that faces Dundas and adjacent to the street market which popped up in the last couple of years. Winter time is fun too with one rink for public skating (no boards) and the other rink has boards and is used for ice hockey in the winter and inline ball hockey in the summer. Ryerson Public School neighbours the community centre and has a large treed field with paved areas near the school useful for playing ball or tennis against the wall. These type of community centers are what help make Toronto a great place to live!

For people living in the Dundas and Bathurst area, I would recommend checking this community centre…read moreout. For a nominal annual membership fee you have access to ESL classes, settlement courses for new Canadians, early morning Tai Chi, computer classes, cooking classes, and loads of fun stuff for kids (science club, youth volleyball, basketball drop-in, ball hockey, creative puppet making). They also offer really important services like "Emergency and Occasional Child Care" which has fees based on a sliding scale depending on family income, a peer nutrition program and parenting support for new parents. For other (still small) additional fees you can use the indoor pool and play other adult sports (badminton, weight training). Oh, and are you feeling hungry but only have $2 on you? The Greenhouse Cafe in the reception area offers a $2 menu everyday (with lots of good healthy stuff to choose from).

Looking for a day of fun in the sun? Well, take a ferry to Toronto Island Park (Centre Island) and…read morehave a multitude of choose your own adventure options! Taking the ferry to Centre Island is affordable and quick. It was only $9.00 CAD for round trip tickets, and there were 3 points of entry: Centre Island, Ward's Island and Hanlan's Point. We chose to take the Centre Island ferry on a Friday morning. It was very packed but the loading and unloading of passengers was efficient, so things seemed to move pretty quickly. One of the first things you notice about the island are all the bike paths. There are ample opportunities to rent bikes for the day, and we saw many people taking advantage of that. But, if renting bikes isn't on your list, there are plenty of other activities that are totally free. There was also an old lighthouse and a hedge maze to explore. There are also boardwalks leading out to Lake Ontario's coastline where you can get some amazing views into the seemingly endless lake or the Toronto skyline. There were some dining options like pizza or beaver tails, but we opted to skip the food options and have lunch on the mainland. One thing I would note is while we didn't see any personally; a fellow pedestrian jumped when he said he saw a snake in the grass, so if you stray from the paved paths, I would keep an eye out for that. We walked all the way to Hanlan's Point and took the ferry back from that point to the main terminal. It was quick and easy, and made for a fun little morning adventure. What a fantastic resource to have a nice grouping of islands where nature can be experienced right by the water. I loved my trip to Centre Island and to a greater extent, Toronto Island Park. It's definitely worth the visit to get out of the city and indulge in more nature-centric activities.

Lovely day weekend to go to the Island for fathers day+ the Toronto Island Dragonboat event was on…read moreas well! Go early or mid afternoon if you want to avoid crowds or major lineups on the ferry.

Got my waterfront experience card here on Victoria's day…read more So happy, I went straight to the powerboat and sailing place to enroll in their sailing course with my new 10% discount.

The Don Valley park system, trails, and surrounding pockets of nature might be one of my top 5…read moreplaces in Toronto. Within a few minutes of downtown, in the middle of Canada's largest city you can literally find yourself deep inside of a real forest setting. The trail system is very well maintained and used for a variety of purposes from dog walking, hiking, mountain biking, etc. It's been estimated that there are nearly 100km of trail system within the Don Valley if you include all of the trails that connect in the surrounding area. To start exploring most people will begin at The Brickworks, the Pottery Road trailhead, or the large parking lot at Taylor Creek. You can explore the Don year round. Fall is probably the best time, but you do need to be careful if it's the rainy season as the clay based trails get very muddy and very sticky. Enjoy real nature in your urban backyard.

What a great experience! Like being on cottage lake in the middle of the city. Close to Old Mill…read moresubway station, the launch area is literally directly underneath the bridge the subway goes over. I've been twice this summer - early June in the evening and mid July for 9 AM kayaking. I enjoyed the early morning peace and tranquillity. We were guided by a long line of geese and also saw two egrets along the way. Very peaceful and they make it so easy as they drag the kayaks down to the launch beach. Getting in and especially out of the kayak is challenging. It would be great to have a pole or chair to grab onto to pull yourself up and out. But otherwise, a fabulous not expensive trip away from the hustle and bustle of city life.

They have kayak, canoeing and paddling Great experience and…read morefun to go with friends Kayak route is not too long and along the route there's lovely nature

Second time coming to this show and man this has gotten popular! I came in mostly to browse the out…read moreof the ordinary items that you can buy and also to browse kayaks and look for other out activities and one of which I found out I'm pretty darn good with a bow! I picked up some additional kayak accessories for mine and also picked up some other camping supplies for this summer. This is the kind of show for any grade of skill for the said categories of what this show is about, tons of info demos and hands on the reel products that pros even use including real rifles and handguns! Of under the safe watchful eyes of both security and police presence. If your thinking of getting started in unique activities like these this is the show you should go to!

The Toronto Sportsmen's Show opened on March the 14th and lasted until the 18th. It was my first…read moretime going to the show, and I went everyday. I don't normally describe things using this word...but I gotta say..this was a 'hoot!' This event runs parallel to Toronto Fashion Week, and as this gorgeous girl from Etobicoke so appropriately put it: "You either go to one or the other." Her name was Becky...5'8, blonde...oh wait, this isn't Craiglist's List missed connections.. Let me see if I can list everything they had there; Boat displays, angler displays, everything to do with fishing, ATVs, hunting, firearms, watersports, rock climbing, dog shows, forest fashion (harhar), knives, swords, bird watching, off-roading, camping, Military displays, archery, prize draws, free swags, and all sorts of food products. I think this was the 65th annual exhibition, and for my first time, it was wonderland. Mayor Ford was on site in the morning of the 14th for the opening ceremony which I attended, and let me tell ya...despite what you may think from television, he is one big tall and intimidating dude. I'm a big dude, and I wouldn't want to mess with him. There were half a dozen blondes who was serving us baked goods after the televised ceremony, and the good Mayor went straight to the cakes. Apparently the amount of morning sweets he had was modest for his normal routine. It was pretty cool, I was just so excited to be in the same place with the Conservative juggernaut. The ticket was $20 for a full day's entrance, but I went for free because of a corporate deal. Also I worked there as apart of some of the displays. The show was very interactive, and extremely family friendly. There were endless things for the kids to enjoy, like a Army zip line courtesy of the Queen's Own Rifles Regiment of Canada, adult and kids archery range, and a space for some organisation displaying real life Owls and Eagles! I've never seen a Bald Eagle before until this show. I ended up purchasing a hunting rifle which I'm going to use for shooting wolves, small deer and wild bores. I also bought a shotgun which I will hunt the bigger animals with. All with tax included! There were mainly two displays in two rooms at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, it was tiring walking from one end tot he other as it was so far apart, and separated by a million escalators, and absolutely nobody walked on them. So it was really like a 'slow things downalator'. Overall, an excellent show for both kids and adults alike, great exhibits from all over Ontario, great people. Remember Von Dutch trucker hats? Well...it never went out of style.. it's just that we Torontoians stopped wearing them.