Somehow I missed the subject heading of this and imagined you were headed out to the prairies/rockies.
Panoguy's recommendations are good. There's good views of the downtown skyline from there and a fair bit of wildlife, more so at Sam Smith I'd say as it's less of a picnicking type of park. If you look at Flickr photostream, the vast majority of photos in it are from the Etobicoke/Lakeshore area, particularly Sam Smith park. My situation is that I rarely have time to make special phototrips out of town, so I make do with local stuff.
NickLOdeon | Flickr
Monarch migrations used to be pretty substantial at the local parks, but numbers have gone way down in the last 3-4 years. In any case, I'll be keeping my eyes open for that over the next month. (Local birders tell me that Sam Smith is also a passageway for migrating birds in the fall.)
There's also the Village of Islington Murals at Islington and Dundas. I've only ever been there when I've gotten on the wrong bus at night, but one of these days, I plan to properly check it out:
Murals
If you like trains/train tracks, there's the GO Transit Willowbrook Yards -- good view is from on the overpass on Islington just north of Lakeshore:
GO Transit Willowbrook Yard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A couple other things that are not in Etobicoke proper (a bit east of here) but would be worth checking out:
- the Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion:
Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- High Park (wood ducks, herons (green, night and great blue), the little zoo, dragonfiles by Grenadier pond, flowers and more)
Further north of the lake, there'd be stuff like this is where Rob Ford smoked crack, this is where Rob Ford ... but that'd be a literally a don't go there conversation...
Originally posted by dsmithhfx: I've got a few vac. days to use up and pondering a trip west where I haven't set foot for many years, and then only just barely. Any photo locations to recommend?
