Skip to content
Toronto Parks Atlas
North Keelesdale Park, site photograph
Back to map
Ravine / Naturalized Parkcluster ·Walkable Mid-Rise Neighbourhood Parks (enclosure-leaning)Beechborough-Greenbrook (112)confidence moderate

North Keelesdale Park

Ravine / Naturalized Park, below average overall (score 27, rank ~18th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: enclosure.

Aerial, City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026

North Keelesdale Park scores 27 / 100. Strongest dimensions: connectivity and natural comfort. Weakest: edge activation (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (100). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.

Best forescape into nature

Area · 5.82 ha

What's here

Recreation
Sports field
Facilities
Washroom
Vitality Score
27/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 72%

Data Confidence
27.0 / 100
Citywide
18th
of all 3,788 parks
Among Ravine / Naturalized Park
19th
same primary typology
Expected for similar parks
37
median in large Ravine / Naturalized Park ravine (n=127)
Performance gap
-10
raw − expected · context confidence high
modest underperformer

Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.

Loading map…

The parks map is loading.
Street context. Park polygon highlighted on the citywide map.

Boundary: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Explain this score

Where did the 27 come from? Each weighted contribution against a neutral 50 baseline. Green = pushed up; red = pulled down.

Download JSON
What pushed this score up or down vs a neutral 50weight × score
Edge Activation0 · p40
-12.5
Amenity Diversity21 · p73
-5.8
Border Vacuum Risk100 (risk)
-5.0
Enclosure / Eyes on Park35 · p6
-1.5
Connectivity57 · p72
+1.4
Natural Comfort52 · p68
+0.4

Sum of contributions = the headline score. A negative bar means that dimension dragged the park below the city-wide neutral baseline.

Why this park works

North Keelesdale Park works because its amenity diversity score (21) is above average and its connectivity (57) is also above-average.

What limits this park

North Keelesdale Park is held back by enclosure (35, bottom quartile); border-vacuum risk is also elevated (100).

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally low enclosure (35, bottom quartile).

Jacobs reading

North Keelesdale Park is currently underperforming on both axes: neither integrated into the city nor offering deep natural respite. A candidate for design intervention.

Performance in context

  • Reads as a modest underperformer relative to comparable parks (gap -10; cohort: large Ravine / Naturalized Park ravine).

Typology classification

confidence 75%
Ravine / Naturalized Parkalso reads as Waterfront Park

Classified as Ravine / Naturalized Park: 100% ravine overlap, 6% canopy. Secondary read: Waterfront Park (nearest waterbody within ~0 m).

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%
0.0 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 3 active uses (transit_stop) and 35 dead/hostile uses (highway, rail, parking_lot). Active edges keep "eyes on the park" through the day; parking lots, blank institutional walls, rail and highway frontages drain street life.

Source: OSM POIs (amenity/shop) + Toronto Building Footprints + land use

Connectivity

20% weightmeasured 85%
56.9 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 26 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 7 street intersections within 100 m; 38 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~1,604 m of perimeter. low edge density, significant superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m5
Intersections within 100 m7
Paths/walkways (50 m)0
Sidewalk segments (50 m)26
Transit stops (400 m)38
Estimated entrances0
Edge connections / 100 m perimeter0.31
Park perimeter1,604 m

Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops

Amenity Diversity

20% weightmeasured 75%
21.0 / 100

2 distinct amenity types in the park (sports_field, washroom). Diversity, not raw count, drives the score so a park with many distinct activity types can outrank a larger park that repeats the same use.

Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags

Natural Comfort

15% weightmeasured 75%
52.4 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: ~8.2% effective canopy (5.9% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); 100.0% inside the ravine system; 2.0% water surface; 68 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (11.7/ha). Reading: ravine-cooled. Source coverage: treed_area, ravine, waterbodies, street_trees. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage5.9%
Canopy area0.35 ha
Inside ravine system100.0%
Water surface inside park2.0%
Nearest water (if outside park)0 m (inside)
Estimated green98.0%
City-mapped trees inside polygon68
Tree density11.7 / ha
Cover diversity (Shannon, 0 to 100)27.6
Sample points used101

Source: Toronto Treed Area + Ravine + Waterbodies + Street Tree Inventory

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%
35.2 / 100

11 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (2 mid-rise, 9 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 6.5 m (~2 floors); 0.7 buildings per 100 m of 1,604 m perimeter (thin frontage with significant blank-edge share); edges are low-rise (mostly 2 to 3 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 2 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m11
Buildings within 50 m11
Avg edge height6.5 m (~2 floors)
Tallest edge building11.6 m
Mid-rise (3 to 7 floors)2
Low-rise (< 3 floors)9
Towers (≥ 13 floors)0
Frontage density0.69 per 100 m perimeter
Mid-rise share of edge18%
Tower share of edge0%
Blank-edge share (proxy)77%
Park perimeter1,604 m

Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%
100.0 risk

Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West, Black Creek Drive, Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West, Black Creek Drive, Black Creek Drive, Line 5 Eglinton, Line 5 Eglinton, Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West, parking_lot, Black Creek Drive, Black Creek Drive, Black Creek Drive, Black Creek Drive, Black Creek Drive, Black Creek Drive, Black Creek Drive. Jacobs warned that highways, rail, parking lots and blank institutional edges act as "vacuums" that suppress foot traffic and isolate the park from its neighbourhood.

Source: Toronto Street Centreline (highways) + rail layer + OSM landuse + building footprints

Equity Context

contextinferred 15%
50.0 / 100

Equity Context requires inputs not yet loaded for this park (Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles). Score is held at a neutral 50 with low confidence. Read with caution.

Source: Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles

Amenities (2 types · 3 records)

  • sports field
  • washroom

Nearby active-edge features (72)

  • highway: Black Creek Drive6 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive7 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive8 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive10 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton18 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive21 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive21 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive21 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton22 m
  • transit stop: Eglinton Avenue at Black Creek Drive22 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive23 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West24 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West29 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West32 m
  • parking lot32 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West33 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West35 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West36 m
  • transit stop: Eglinton Avenue West37 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West43 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West45 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West46 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive46 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive46 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive52 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West54 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton55 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton56 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive61 m
  • parking lot66 m
  • parking lot70 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West75 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton78 m
  • parking lot78 m
  • transit stop: Eglinton Avenue at Black Creek Drive86 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West87 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West87 m
  • parking lot91 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive100 m
  • parking lot105 m
  • transit stop: Todd Baylis Boulevard110 m
  • parking lot121 m
  • parking lot136 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West140 m
  • transit stop: Trethewey Drive146 m
  • parking lot148 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West149 m
  • parking lot152 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton152 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton155 m
  • parking lot164 m
  • parking lot164 m
  • parking lot165 m
  • transit stop: Todd Baylis Boulevard165 m
  • rail168 m
  • transit stop: Keelesdale Road at Eglinton Avenue West170 m
  • rail170 m
  • parking lot170 m
  • parking lot170 m
  • parking lot170 m
  • parking lot172 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive172 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton172 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton172 m
  • rail184 m
  • rail191 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West191 m
  • transit stop: Trethewey Dr at Paulson Rd192 m
  • rail193 m
  • transit stop: Keelesdale Road at Eglinton Avenue West193 m
  • rail193 m
  • parking lot196 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Edge ActivationConnectivityAmenity DiversityNatural ComfortEnclosureNorth Keelesdale Park
Edge activation, connectivity, amenity diversity, natural comfort, and enclosure, each 0 to 100.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

  • Overall vitality
    18th
  • Edge activation
    40th
  • Connectivity
    72th
  • Amenity diversity
    73th
  • Natural comfort
    68th
  • Enclosure
    6th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

Most opposite parks

Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.

Human activity signals: not available

No activity signals have landed for this park yet. The model has scored its physical form but it can’t yet say how often it’s programmed, photographed, or walked through. See /data-ethics for what we will and will not collect.

Does this score feel accurate?

Your read of North Keelesdale Parkmatters. We’re testing whether the model lines up with how people actually use the park. Submissions are stored locally; no account needed.

Tell us how this park feels

We measure structure (canopy, edges, connectivity). You measure feeling. Both matter, and disagreement is itself useful civic data.

Rate this park on as many dimensions as you have an opinion about. 1 = not at all, 5 = strongly. Skip the ones you don't feel sure about. Aggregated only, no comments stored at the row level.

feels socially active
feels comfortable
feels safe
feels connected
feels welcoming
feels ecological / natural
feels good for lingering
feels family-friendly
feels culturally important
70%

What would improve this park?

Generated from the weakest measured dimensions: a starting point, not a prescription.

  • Activate the edges: encourage cafés, retail or community uses on the streets that face the park; replace blank or parking-lot edges where possible.
  • Diversify what people can do in the park (playground, washroom, water, shade, performance, sport, garden): even small additions raise this score.
  • Encourage mid-rise, windowed frontages around the park so residents have direct sightlines onto it.
  • Mitigate border vacuums (highways, rail, parking) with active programming on the still-permeable edges and treat the hostile edge as a design challenge.

Data sources

real Toronto data
  • City of Toronto Open Data: Parks (Green Space)
    Polygon boundaries, official names, types. Boundaries are reconciled against OpenStreetMap (ODbL) for new and updated parks.
  • Parks & Recreation Facilities
    Inventory of in-park amenities (washrooms, fields, rinks…).
  • Toronto Pedestrian Network
    Sidewalk segments around and through parks; estimated park entrances.
  • Toronto Centreline V2
    Street segments + intersection nodes near park edges; trails and walkways.
  • Toronto 3D Massing
    Building footprints + heights for edge-building counts, frontage density, and tower-in-the-park risk.
  • Toronto Treed Area
    Tree canopy share inside park polygons via stratified-grid sampling.
  • Toronto Waterbodies & Rivers
    Water surface inside parks + nearest-water distance for cooling.
  • Ravine & Natural Feature Protection
    Ravine overlap as a cooling / natural-comfort signal.
  • Toronto Street Tree Inventory
    Tree count + density inside park polygons.
  • Neighbourhood Profiles
    (Pending) Equity context proxy.
  • OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)
    Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.