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Last Wednesday night, a few people from the Cycling Cog got together to bike and explore one of the hidden gems of the Toronto Trail System - namely the Beltline, Mt. Pleasant Cemetary, the Don Valley Brickworks and The Lower Don Valley Trail... it's kind of amazing that it's possible to bike from Eglinton West Station all the way to Queen & River with minimal interference with cars.
Here are a few photos from the ride:
Here's a few of us before the ride across the street from the Eglinton West Subway Station... Tanya, Steeker, Lena, Chris, Darren, and Sean. Val showed up right after this photo was taken, and Herb met up with us at the Brickworks.
Through Mt. Pleasant Cemetary.
I rode up to Eglinton West Station via Winston Churchill Park and the Cedarvale Ravine, which roughly run from Spadina & Davenport all the way up to Eglinton West. This is where the Spadina Expressway would have been if Jane Jacobs and Torontonians hadn't put a stop to the highway plans.
I much prefer parkland and sports fields (there was a lot of ultimate frisbee being played when I rode through there...) to lots of cars and asphalt, don't you?
You can see all 15 photos I took over on Flickr, and you can see some photos from when I did the same route back in March.
Tanya and Darren have great write-ups and more photos from the ride too!
How did you guys get from the Brickworks into the Don Valley? I can't figure out how to get over Bayview; I guess you have to bike south of Bloor via Milkman's Lane to get into the Don Valley from the Brickworks?
Ahh, good point Al... we crossed Bayview "at grade" and took a little path through the brush between Bayview and the RR tracks where we met up with the Don Valley Trail at Bayview and Pottery Road. It would be great to see the city build a nice pedestrian/cycling bridge (or tunnel) to get across Bayview easily.
very fun ride it was :D
I think there's a pedestrian/cycling bridge proposal in Evergreen's site plan. Hopefully it gets built. Are there any signal lights on Bayview in the Brickworks area?
Hi Al, unfortunately the Brickworks parking lot is about halfway smack dab between Pottery Road and Rosedale Valley Road. When its been too busy to cross I've cycled up the shoulder on the wrong side of the road before to get to Pottery Road but this creates a very confusing crossing as nothing is expected to cross from that side of the road (its a t-intersection, and obviously there are no facilities on the bayview extension for peds)
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