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Port Lands

The Port Lands of Toronto, Ontario, Canada are an industrial and recreational neighbourhood located about 5 kilometres south-east of downtown, located on the former Don River delta and most of Ashbridge's Bay.

Port Lands
Port Lands · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Port Lands of Toronto, Ontario, Canada are an industrial and recreational neighbourhood located about 5 kilometres south-east of downtown, located on the former Don River delta and most of Ashbridge's Bay.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Port Lands

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    CN Tower

    The CN Tower is a 553.3-metre-high communications and observation tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Completed in 1976, it is located in downtown Toronto, built on the former Railway Lands.

    4 km · communications and observation tower in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Scotiabank Arena

    Scotiabank Arena, formerly known as Air Canada Centre, is a multi-purpose arena located on Bay Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the home of the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association and the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.

    3.3 km · indoor arena in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    First Canadian Place

    First Canadian Place is a commercial skyscraper in the Financial District of Toronto, Ontario, at the northwest corner of King and Bay streets, and serves as the global operational executive office of the Bank of Montreal. At 298 metres tall, it is the third-tallest building in Canada, the 35th-tallest building in North America, and the 261st-tallest in the world.

    3.5 km · skyscraper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Toronto Metropolitan University

    Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly known as Ryerson University, is a public research university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university's core campus is situated within the Garden District in downtown Toronto, although it also operates facilities elsewhere in the city and a satellite campus in Brampton for its medical school.

    3.5 km · public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hockey Hall of Fame

    The Hockey Hall of Fame is a museum and hall of fame located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey, it holds exhibits about players, teams, National Hockey League records, memorabilia and NHL trophies, including the Stanley Cup.

    3.1 km · sports museum in downtown Toronto · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Yonge Dundas Square

    Sankofa Square, colloquially Dundas Square, is a public square and outdoor venue at the southeast corner of the intersection of Yonge Street and Dundas Street East within the Garden District in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The square was conceived in 1997 as part of a revitalization of the intersection and the stretch of Yonge Street.

    3.5 km · public square in Toronto · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Toronto City Hall

    The Toronto City Hall, or New City Hall, is the seat of the municipal government of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and one of the city's most distinctive landmarks. Designed by Viljo Revell and engineered by Hannskarl Bandel, this example of Neo-Expressionist Modern architecture opened in 1965.

    3.7 km · city hall in Canada · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    IIHF Hall of Fame

    The IIHF Hall of Fame is a hall of fame operated by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was founded in 1997, and has resided at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto since 1998.

    3.1 km · hall of fame of the International Ice Hockey Federation · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Q1567534

    The St. Regis Toronto is a mixed-use skyscraper located in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    3.4 km · Mixed-use skyscraper in Toronto, Ontario · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Fairmont Royal York

    The Fairmont Royal York, formerly and still commonly known as the Royal York, is a large historic luxury hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located along Front Street West, the hotel is situated at the southern end of the Financial District, in Downtown Toronto.

    3.5 km · Luxury hotel building in Toronto, Ontario · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Port Lands

Airports
Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 24 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 71 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 93 km
Stations
Union Station, 3.4 km · TMU station, 3.6 km · College, 3.8 km · Donlands, 3.7 km · Chester, 3.6 km
  • Hamilton → Port Lands
    13906 km · quickest by air, 29h 11m · NZ$3,050–4,720
  • Windsor → Port Lands
    334 km · quickest by air, 4h 42m · C$140–220
  • Ottawa → Port Lands
    350 km · quickest by air, 4h 46m · C$150–240
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Port Lands

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Port Lands. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBilly Bishop Toronto City Airport () is on the Toronto Islands, connected to the Harbourfront by ferry and pedestrian tunnel.

From Wikivoyage: Greater Toronto Area, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    610 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    843 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,903 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,994 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,122 km

If you know how people move in Port Lands – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Port Lands

Port Lands is 8 km from Toronto, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.