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 (or 12356 acres), mostly in Toronto, but some is located in Markham. 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
