Warden Woods Park

Warden Woods Park follows Taylor-Massey Creek through a forested ravine in Scarborough, one of dozens of ravine corridors that thread through Toronto's river valleys and were, in most cases, left undeveloped precisely because their steep slopes and flood-prone valley floors made conventional building impractical. As postwar subdivisions filled in the flat land on either side of the ravine through the 1950s and 60s, the ravine itself remained forested, preserved by the same geography that had kept it out of reach of earlier development.

Part of a citywide system

The park is part of Toronto's broader ravine system, managed in significant part by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, which oversees flood control and naturalization work across the city's many creek valleys. Warden Woods offers walking trails and a rare stretch of continuous tree cover through a otherwise densely built-up section of Scarborough, connecting to the TTC's Warden subway station at one end of the ravine.

Sources

• Toronto and Region Conservation Authority — Taylor-Massey Creek
• Wikipedia — Warden Woods

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