Toronto’s largest and most-loved public park, High Park spans 400 acres in the city’s west end with hiking trails, a free zoo, sports facilities, and Grenadier Pond. The park is best known for its cherry blossom season each spring — a roughly two-week window in late April or early May when the Sakura trees, a gift from Japan in 1959, draw crowds from across the city. Summer brings Shakespeare in High Park, a long-running outdoor theatre tradition, while fall offers some of the best foliage walking in the city. Free and open year-round.
