Current ranking based on review analysis and technical signals.
How we chose: 10 places selected by rating and number of reviews. Source — Google Places. Updated 03 August 2026.
At a glance
| # | Place | Score | Reviews | Stands out for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | High Park | ⭐ 9.5 | 27 302 | Editors' pick |
| 2 | Edwards Gardens | ⭐ 9.5 | 9 268 | — |
| 3 | Trinity Bellwoods Park | ⭐ 9.3 | 8 762 | — |
| 4 | Riverdale Park East | ⭐ 9.7 | 5 565 | People's favorite |
| 5 | Centennial Park | ⭐ 9.1 | 5 378 | — |
| 6 | Harbour Square Park | ⭐ 9.3 | 4 306 | — |
| 7 | Queen's Park | ⭐ 9.1 | 4 294 | — |
| 8 | HTO Park | ⭐ 9.3 | 4 081 | — |
| 9 | Berczy Park | ⭐ 9.5 | 3 928 | — |
| 10 | Rouge National Urban Park | ⭐ 9.5 | 3 834 | — |
Highlights
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Editors' pick:
High Park -
People's favorite:
Riverdale Park East
Opening hours
Open around the clock: High Park, Riverdale Park East, Harbour Square Park, Queen's Park, HTO Park, Berczy Park.
Open late: High Park, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Riverdale Park East, Centennial Park, Harbour Square Park, Queen's Park, HTO Park, Berczy Park.
Open early, from 8am or sooner: High Park, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Riverdale Park East, Centennial Park, Harbour Square Park, Queen's Park, HTO Park, Berczy Park, Rouge National Urban Park.
Check the hours before you set out — they shift on holidays and out of season.
Full ranking
1. High Park · ⭐ 9.5
(27302 reviews)
+7 photos
1873 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M6R 2Z3, Canada
High Park is not a landscaped city square that grew large. It is a genuine fragment of pre-settlement Ontario — black oak savannah, spring-fed ravine, a kilometre-long pond with beavers in it — that the city grew around instead of over. An architect named John George Howard bought the land in 1836, built a cottage on the high ground above the lake, and in 1873 handed it to Toro…
«High Park is a wonderful place! First and foremost because of its funny and kawaii wildlif…»
2. Edwards Gardens · ⭐ 9.5
(9268 reviews)
+7 photos
755 Lawrence Ave E, North York, ON M3C 1P2, Canada
Most city parks are land that was left over. Edwards Gardens is land that somebody loved into shape. A Scottish miller dammed the creek here in the 1820s; a Toronto businessman bought the exhausted homestead in 1944 and spent a decade turning it into a private estate garden with 425 tons of imported stone in the rockery alone; and since 1956 the whole thing has belonged to the…
«Okay, so we swung by Edwards Gardens when Toronto decided to fake spring for five minutes,…»
3. Trinity Bellwoods Park · ⭐ 9.3
(8762 reviews)
+7 photos
790 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1G3, Canada
Thirty-six acres of grass with a dip in the middle: that is the whole park, and it is the busiest social space in the west end of downtown Toronto. What almost nobody standing in it realizes is that the dip is a river valley. Garrison Creek ran through here until the city buried it, and the fill that flattened the ravine came out of the Bloor–Danforth subway excavation. Under t…
«This park is one of the most beautiful and serene places amidst the humdrum of city life.…»
4. Riverdale Park East · ⭐ 9.7
(5565 reviews)
+7 photos
550 Broadview Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 2N6, Canada
Every city has one slope that ended up on all the postcards, and in Toronto it is this one. Riverdale Park East is a long grass hill falling west into the Don valley, and because nothing stands between it and downtown, the entire skyline lines up across the top of the trees — best at sunset, better still on a clear winter evening. What the view does not advertise is what the hi…
«I can say that this is one of the best places in Toronto to watch the sunset. Especially i…»
5. Centennial Park · ⭐ 9.1
(5378 reviews)
+7 photos
256 Centennial Park Rd, Etobicoke, ON M9C 5N3, Canada
Etobicoke's Centennial Park was a dairy farm until the Borough opened it in 1967 as its gift to Canada's centennial year. What it became is the closest thing Toronto has to a full-scale outdoor sports campus: 213 hectares, roughly 1.5 million visits a year, an Olympic-legacy pool building, a stadium, two indoor ice pads, a BMX track built for the Pan American Games, a free trop…
«Such a beautiful park with free access! We enjoyed our evening here, on top of the hill, w…»
6. Harbour Square Park · ⭐ 9.3
(4306 reviews)
+7 photos
25 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON M5J 2G4, Canada
Almost everyone who has ever taken a ferry to the Toronto Islands has walked through this park, and most of them never learned its name. It is a narrow green wedge pressed between the condominium towers of the central waterfront and the open water of the Inner Harbour, and it does one thing better than any other space downtown: it puts you at the true edge of Lake Ontario, at e…
«This cozy park sits on the lakeshore in Toronto. It offers a beautiful view of the waterfr…»
7. Queen's Park · ⭐ 9.1
(4294 reviews)
+7 photos
111 Wellesley St W, Toronto, ON M7A 1A2, Canada
Twenty hectares of oak canopy wrapped around a pink sandstone palace: Queen's Park is simultaneously the oldest public park of its kind in the country, the front lawn of the Ontario legislature, an open-air museum of Canadian political sculpture, and the place Torontonians go when they want to be heard. The name has slipped free of the geography — when a Canadian newspaper writ…
«The Parliament Building at Queen's Park is an exquisitely designed structure well worth a…»
8. HTO Park · ⭐ 9.3
(4081 reviews)
+7 photos
339 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON M5V 1A2, Canada
Sand, yellow steel umbrellas the size of small pavilions, Muskoka chairs facing open water, and behind them a run of green mounds rolling toward the city — HTO Park is barely more than two hectares, and it changed how an entire city thought about its shoreline. When it opened in 2007 it was the first significant new public space built on Toronto's downtown central waterfront in…
«A perfect place for a quiet evening. This is my favorite spot to spend time alone with mys…»
9. Berczy Park · ⭐ 9.5
(3928 reviews)
+7 photos
35 Wellington St E, Toronto, ON M5E 1C9, Canada
It is four-tenths of a hectare, a triangle of ground wedged between three converging streets in Old Town, and it is almost certainly the most photographed park of its size in Canada. The reason sits in the middle: a two-tier fountain ringed by twenty-seven life-size cast-iron dogs, every one of them a different breed, every one of them spouting water and staring upward at a gol…
«Berczy Park is a public park located in the very heart of downtown Toronto, Canada. The pa…»
10. Rouge National Urban Park · ⭐ 9.5
(3834 reviews)
+7 photos
7277 14th Ave, Markham, ON L6B 1A8, Canada
Seventy-nine square kilometres of river valley, Carolinian forest, wetland, beach and working farmland, all of it inside the Greater Toronto Area and all of it free to enter. Rouge National Urban Park is not a big city park; it is a national park with a subway-and-bus commute, created by its own act of Parliament and run by Parks Canada, holding more than 1,700 recorded species…
«This national park is located near the Toronto Zoo. It's a quiet and pleasant place for a…»
Questions & answers
Which place tops the ranking? High Park — score 9.5/10 (Editors' pick).
How many places are in the list and how were they chosen? The selection includes 10 places chosen by our editors based on rating and reviews.
What is the average rating in the top? 9.4/10 — average score of 10 places in the list.
Which place has the most reviews? High Park — 27302 visitor reviews.
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Sources: Google ratings and reviews, official websites and social media of the places, other open data. Selection and texts by the toronto.name editorial team, August 2026.