Hello From Toronto: A Bike Ride Through The Don Valley, Past The Distillery District To The Toronto Islands
Sometimes you get hooked on an activity, and exploring Toronto by bike has become one of these pastimes for me. Not only is it great exercise, but its also an awesome way to explore the nooks and crannies of any destination. To share my enthusiasm I conscripted my friend Mario on a Thursday evening after work and persuaded him to come on a cycling trip with me.
So we met up in the Taylor Creek Park system, away from Torontos busy streets and started our ride, heading westwards towards the Don Valley. We turned southwards and got on the main north-south bicycle trail that is wedged between the Don Valley Parkway and the slowly flowing Don River, one of two main rivers in Toronto.
In my opinion, Toronto is an amazingly cycleable city, it has about 40 km of bicycle lanes on city streets and about 125 km of paved bicycle paths. What makes Toronto really unique is a network of ravines that cross the city from north to south, most of which feature bicycle trails. We cycled underneath the Leaside Bridge, crossed Pottery Road and stopped briefly underneath...