Rouge Park

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Rouge Park is a large "urban" park located in east end Toronto. Most of it is actually not an urban park in the strictest sense of the term, but is actually a rather large rural area where development was declared off-limits, then established as a park. People still live and even farm there. It is the only remaining rural area in the city of Toronto.

Established in 1995 by the Province of Ontario, the park consist of 50 square kilometres of parkland, mostly in Toronto, but some is located in Markham, Ontario. The park was created as a means to protect some of the watershed. The Rouge River remains the healthiest river that flows through Toronto.

The park is part of the Rouge River Park system and the largest urban park in North America. It stretches from Lake Ontario to the Oak Ridges Moraine in York Region.

The sites in park:

Twyn Rivers Area
Glen Eagles Vista
Glen Rouge Campground
Rouge Beach
Woodlands Area
Milne Park
Toogood Pond
Bruce Mill's Conservation Park
Phyllis Rawlinson Park

Waterways in the park:

Toogood Pond
Milne Dam
Bruce Creek
Carleton Creek
Morningside Creek
Little Rouge River
Rouge River

Reference

[Rouge Park website]

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