Nicest streets to walk along in Toronto

[NorthYorker]

Yonge Street

All the way from lakeshore to Bradford? Seriously, there're some nice stretches (Union to College, Bloor to Summerhill to St. Clair, Sheppard to Finch), but generally it is pretty uneventful. I'd probably add Cabbagetown, Queen East (Beaches area), Danforth and UofT downtown campus to my favourite places to walk. Forest Hill is good too.

Yonge from st claire to eglinton looks really nice!

IMHO that's one of least interesting stretches. Basically you're walking between railroad line and cemetery all the way from St. Claire to Davisville, and then some depressing 2-storey boxes without rhyme and reason to Eglinton, where you're greeted by a bunch of boring wannabe skyscrapers

[illmdxthat]

For people watching and shops I like Queen and Spadina and start walking east on Queen.

[Joshray]

Summerhill Ave / Yonge St

[geronimo]

Distillery District (i.e. Distillery Lane & Mill St)
King Street West - between University Ave & Bathurst St
Queen Street West - between University Ave & Bathurst St
Philosopher's Walk - UofT St George campus (access it from Bloor St W between the Royal Conservatory of Music and the ROM)

[fuzzy_avocado]

Isn't it sad that I can think of more gross streets than nice ones?

[flashy_mcflash]

FYI, Stroll is a fantastic book of little walks you can take around the city and the history of the areas. I'd definitely recommend it even if you don't want to walk around as it's a really good read.

What is the ‘Toronto look’? Glass skyscrapers rise beside Victorian homes, and Brutalist apartment buildings often mark the edge of leafy ravines, creating a city of contrasts whose architectural look can only be defined by telling the story of how it came together and how it works, today, as an imperfect machine.

Shawn Micallef has been examining Toronto’s streetscapes for a decade. His psychogeographic reportages, some of which have been featured in EYE WEEKLY and Spacing magazine, situate Toronto's buildings and streets in living, breathing detail, and tell us about the people who use them; the ways, intended or otherwise, that they are being used; and how they are evolving.

Stroll celebrates Toronto's details – some subtle, others grand – at the speed of walking and, in so doing, helps us to better get to know its many neighbourhoods, taking us from well-known spots like the CN Tower and Pearson Airport to the overlooked corners of Scarborough and all the way to the end of the Leslie Street Spit in Lake Ontario.

Stroll features thirty-two walks, a flâneur manifesto, a foreword by architecture critic John Bentley Mays, dozens of hand-drawn maps by Marlena Zuber and a full-colour fold-out orientation map of Toronto.

http://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/stroll

[cardle]

Yonge from Eglinton to Yonge Blvd. Lots of different shops and places to eat along the way.

[consumerPI]

Bayview Ave. from Eglington heading South to the Loblaws on Moore.

[iridium001]

Main Street Unionville?

Fail. That's not Toronto...

Anyway, Toronto doesn't have as many picturesque all-pedestrian streets like some other great cities in the world. But I would pick Yorkville, and not just the small one way area where Cumberland is but from Yonge/Bloor to Yonge/Bay. Distillery is also nice too.

Chinatown Spadina I would stay away from as its generally dirtier than other streets and not as nice.

[BoogieWilliams]

Just outside of Toronto, there's Port Credit.

[Simaahoy]

St. Jamestown

[tebore]

Lakeshore further west near Kipling is fantastic.

Used to walk around Toronto just for the sake of walking in my younger days.

[kingrukus]

jarvis street
sherborne street
ray lawson in brampton
highway 401

[Supercooled]

chinatown

bring medical masks.

[dibksbgon]

Love walking the route of Queen West, to Spadina and up to Dundas and across. Love Chinatown and the little stores.

On the weekend I even saw Jeanne Beker doing a segment on Queen West for FT! I had a fangirl moment.