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

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.
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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.
- 01Mel 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 - 02Canadian 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 - 03Richmond 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 - 04Tyndale 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 - 05York 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 - 06Holy 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 - 07Centerpoint 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 - 08Improve 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 - 09North 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 - 10Gibson 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
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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 → Willowdale44 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · NZ$7–10
- Windsor → Willowdale336 km · quickest by air, 4h 38m · C$140–220
- Ottawa → Willowdale345 km · quickest by air, 4h 42m · C$150–240
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- Go nextTake a day trip to Lake Simcoe or Lake Wilcox.
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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