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Trinity Bellwoods

1. The party circle

If Trinity Bellwoods were a club, this would be the dance floor. Easily the most popular spot in the park. Also the site of the original Trinity College, opened in 1852, demolished in the 1950s.

2. The tennis courts

Under these concrete courts lie buried parts of the old University of Toronto chapel.

3. The front gates

The official entrance to the park, and a remnant of the park’s days as a 19th university campus.

4. Duelling diamonds

Hipster boozeball played here.

5. Dog bowl

A reminder of the now-buried ravine that included Garrison Creek.

6. Crawford Street Bridge

Before Garrison Creek was covered with leftover earth from digging the Bloor subway, you could cross it on an elegant bridge.

7. El Libertador Simón Bolívar

The bust of Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar is a popular meet-up spot.

8. The pee bush

Be careful, people urinate in large numbers here – the real bathrooms often get locked early.

9. i miss you

Art project or public love letter? Whatever the case, someone with a deep yearning and a ball of yarn spelled out these words on the tennis court fence around 2009.

10. White squirrel habitat

Trinity’s most famous tenant is a blanched rodent that, urban legend has it, is a single critter. More likely there are several from the same bloodline.

11. Slacklining trees

Aspiring acrobats can regularly be found in this part of the park practising a bouncy variant on tightrope-walking.

12. Shagbark hickory

An ancient tree thought to be one of the few left over from the park’s days as a pristine forest was cut down in 2011.

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