Danforth Dad's 5 Favourite Toronto Playgrounds for Kids Who Love Trains
If you have kids, you can count on them having a few obsessions during their first five years. It could be dinosaurs. It could be...
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Danforth Dad
Apr 15, 20213 min read
Danforth Dad's 5 Favourite Toronto Skate Parks
Few public spaces can engage and accommodate such a wide range of ages as a skate park. On the average day at a skate park you’ll see...
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Danforth Dad
Feb 10, 20213 min read
Neighbourhood Spotlight: Corktown
Corktown is one of those neighbourhoods that I like to pretend I live in. Don't get me wrong: I love my own neighbourhood, and as a...
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Danforth Dad
Jun 28, 20205 min read
Danforth Dad's 10 Favourite Spots for Hiking / Biking / Picnics
For playground enthusiasts, 2020 has been…sub-optimal. Pandemic precautions have forced the city to (quite rightly) shut everything down,...
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Danforth Dad
Jul 30, 20194 min read
Danforth Dad's 5 Favourite Toronto Playgrounds in Need of an Overhaul
Public playgrounds are a great civic investment. For most kids, the playground is where they will first experience public space, and if a...
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Danforth Dad
Jul 20, 20193 min read
Danforth Dad's 5 Favourite Indoor Playgrounds in Toronto
Although this blog’s mission is to explore public (ie. free) playgrounds in the city’s parks and public school grounds, there are times...
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Danforth Dad
Jul 20, 20193 min read
Danforth Dad's 5 Favourite Playgrounds Close to Toronto Tourist Attractions
In 2017, Toronto hosted an estimated 43 million tourists. For perspective, the total population of Canada in 2017 was 36 million. There...
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Danforth Dad
Jul 12, 20193 min read
Danforth Dad's 5 Favourite School Playgrounds in Toronto
There are more than 700 public schools in Toronto, and many of those have playgrounds. Of course, for most of the year, play is reserved...
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Danforth Dad
Jul 12, 20193 min read
Danforth Dad's 5 Favourite Toronto Playgrounds for Water Play
City summers can be unbearably hot. Cottages are fine, but too far away (and expensive) for many of us. City pools are a good option, but...
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Danforth Dad
Jul 12, 20192 min read
Danforth Dad's 5 Favourite Hidden Playgrounds in Toronto
Toronto has its share of marquee parks that feature great playgrounds: High Park, Kew Gardens, Dufferin Grove. Families will regularly...
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Danforth Dad
Jul 11, 20194 min read
Danforth Dad's 10 Favourite Toronto Playgrounds
A highly biased, completely subjective list of Danforth Dad's ten favourite playgrounds in Toronto.
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