Budget · 3-hour walk · Toronto
Harbourfront to the Distillery in three hours
The tower and the lake, the market that feeds the city, and the Victorian whisky works at the end.
Toronto's downtown is a grid and the interesting parts of it are along the bottom edge by the lake. This route runs west to east and finishes in the Distillery District, a preserved Victorian industrial site that is now entirely pedestrian. The streetcar covers the last stretch if the legs have gone.
The route, stop by stop
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CN Tower
The tallest free-standing structure on earth until 2007. The glass floor is 342 m up and the EdgeWalk is outside the pod.
50 min here Walk here → -
Harbourfront Centre
The lakeside strip of galleries and boardwalks, with the island ferry docks just east of it.
25 min here Walk here → -
St Lawrence Market
A market on this site since 1803. The peameal bacon sandwich in the south building is the thing to order.
35 min here Walk here → -
Distillery District
Arrive by tram from the previous stop
Thirteen streets of Victorian industrial brick, entirely pedestrianised. The 504 streetcar drops you at the gate.
30 min here Walk here →
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