The Castles
(The kids will really love them.)
The Jamie Bell Adventure Playground is a one-of-a-kind, family meeting place.
Inspired by the imagination and creativity of local community children, planning and design was underway for their “dream playground”. In the spring of 1998, children working along side parents, teachers and volunteers the Adventure Playground was built, celebrating High Park's natural environment, social history and local architecture.
In 1999, the playground was expanded, by adding the “Big Slide”. The Adventure Playground was an integral part of the High Park Master Plan with the goal of revitalizing family use of the park and increasing user safety.
Through a successful partnership between the High Park Citizen's Advisory Committee, Toronto Parks & Recreation and Robert Leathers Architects, a firm specializing in community-built playgrounds, the project became a reality.
In 2003, the playground was aptly named in honour of Jamie Bell, who first raised the idea of a community-built playground in High Park and served as the General Co-ordinator of the High Park Adventure Committee. Jamie's hard work, commitment and dedication did not go unrecognized. The playground is open year round, dawn to dusk and is unsupervised.
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HIGH PARK ZOO Located on Deer Pen Road, the animal paddocks have always been one of the most popular attractions, dating back to 1890 when deer were kept in High Park. Today, you will find domestic and exotic species including bison, llamas, peacocks, deer, highland cattle and sheep. Please do not feed the animals! They are on veteranarian supervised diets and increased public feeding leads to ilness and suffering. Open year round to visitors from 7:00 am to dusk .
