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Willowdale

Willowdale is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the district and former township of North York.

Willowdale
Willowdale · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Willowdale is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the district and former township of North York. It developed from three postal villages: Newtonbrook, Willowdale and Lansing.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Willowdale

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
    Mel Lastman Square

    Mel Lastman Square is a public square at North York Civic Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is named after then North York mayor Mel Lastman.

    2.5 km · square in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Canadian Air and Space Museum

    The Canadian Air and Space Conservancy was an aviation museum that was located in Toronto, Ontario, featuring artifacts, exhibits and stories illustrating a century of Canadian aviation heritage and achievements. The museum was located in a hangar that once housed the original de Havilland Canada aircraft manufacturing building, but in September 2011 the museum and all of the other tenants in the building were evicted by the landlord, the Crown Corporation, PDP.

    5.8 km · aviation museum in Toronto, Ontario · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Richmond Hill Centre Terminal

    Richmond Hill Centre Terminal is a York Region Transit, Viva, and GO Transit bus terminal in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Despite its name, the terminal is not located in downtown Richmond Hill, but is situated 4 km to the south at the city's southern limits, bordering Vaughan and Markham, near the connecting road that links the grade-separated Yonge Street and Highway 7 intersection.

    5.9 km · bus terminal in Richmond Hill, Ontario · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tyndale University

    Tyndale University is a Canadian private interdenominational evangelical Christian university in Toronto, Ontario, which offers undergraduate and graduate programs. Tyndale students come from over 40 different Christian denominations.

    3.2 km · Evangelical Christian college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    York Cemetery, Toronto

    York Cemetery is a cemetery located in the North York area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada operated by the Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries.

    2.6 km · cemetery in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Holy Cross Cemetery

    Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery is a cemetery in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. It is owned and operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto.

    5.1 km · cemetery in Thornhill, Ontario · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Centerpoint Mall

    Centerpoint Mall is a shopping mall located in Newtonbrook, a neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the southwest corner of Steeles Avenue and Yonge Street at the boundary of Toronto. It contains 59,005 square metres of retail space.

    1.1 km · shopping centre on Toronto's border with York Region · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Improve Canada

    Improve Canada is a commercial shopping mall complex located in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. The mall has about 400 home improvement stores, exclusively focused on home improvement products and services.

    5.5 km · shopping mall in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    North York Central Library

    North York Central Library is a Toronto Public Library branch located in North York City Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the two libraries in the Toronto public library system considered to be "Research and Reference Libraries", the other being the Toronto Reference Library in the city's downtown core.

    2.4 km · library branch located in North York, Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Gibson House

    Gibson House is a historical museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Yonge Street, in the North York Centre neighbourhood of the former city of North York.

    2.3 km · historical museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 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.

Go there

Getting to Willowdale

Airports
Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 20 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 79 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 110 km
Stations
Downsview Airport, 5.7 km · Finch, 1.3 km · Sheppard–Yonge, 3.2 km · North York Centre, 2.5 km · Sheppard West, 4.9 km
  • Hamilton → Willowdale
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · NZ$7–10
  • Windsor → Willowdale
    336 km · quickest by air, 4h 38m · C$140–220
  • Ottawa → Willowdale
    345 km · quickest by air, 4h 42m · C$150–240
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Willowdale

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 Willowdale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextTake a day trip to Lake Simcoe or Lake Wilcox.

From Wikivoyage: Vaughan, 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

    624 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    849 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,915 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    3,006 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,139 km

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

Around it

Next door to Willowdale

Willowdale is 8 km from Vaughan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Concordurban community in Vaughan, Ontario3.9 km
  • Thornhillneighbourhood in the Greater Toronto Area3.2 km
  • Bayview Avenuemajor north-south route in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario4 km
  • Downsviewneighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada5.8 km
  • North York City Centreneighbourhood in Toronto, Canada2.4 km
  • York Centrefederal electoral district in Ontario, Canada (Since 1953)3 km