Scarborough: things to do and places to meet

Scarborough has the best landscape in Toronto and the least of the attention. The Bluffs are a genuine cliff face over the lake; Rouge Park is a national park inside a city; and the food along Lawrence and Kingston Road is the reason people drive out here on purpose.

4 places to meet here

These are the public places Churr suggests for a first meeting in this part of the city. Each one was picked for being easy to find, easy to describe, and easy to leave.

• Bluffer’s Park

  Down at the water under the cliffs. The only beach in the city with a wall behind it.

• Scarborough Bluffs lookout

  The top of the cliffs, looking out at nothing but lake. Stay back from the edge.

• Rouge Beach

  Where the Rouge meets the lake, at the end of the Lakeshore East line.

• Guild Park and Gardens

  Salvaged stone facades standing in a lawn above the lake. Strange and very quiet.

Free things that happen here anyway

No calendar required — these run all year, or near enough.

• Bluffer’s Park, under the cliffs, which does not look like it belongs in this city at all.
• Rouge National Urban Park, which is a national park you can reach on the TTC.
• The Guild Park sculpture grounds, an outdoor collection of salvaged building fronts that is free and strange and quiet.

What’s on free across Toronto this week →

Meeting people in Scarborough

The advice that works everywhere works here too: pick something that repeats, go six times before you judge it, and be the one who suggests the next thing. The longer version →

Or let your twin do the suggesting. Churr introduces you to people in your part of Toronto with a first thing to do already agreed.