Parks and Recreation Facilities

This data set, for each of the City of Toronto's parks and community recreation centres, provides location information and a select list of twenty amenities that could be found a location. Included in the list are sports facilities, playgrounds, picnic areas, dog off-leash areas, etc. There are over 1500 records in the dataset.

Location information found in this data set include:

  • AssetID
  • AssetName
  • Address
  • Type - Community Recreation Centre or Park
  • Amenity
  • URL
  • Attribution (Future)

The operational status of a community recreation centre is updated in near real-time by staff throughout the day. The most updated information can be found by accessing the JSON file linked below:

https://www.toronto.ca/data/parks/live/centres.json

Operational Statuses include:

  • 0 = closed
  • 1 = open
  • 2 = service alert

Facilities within a centre such as pools or ice rinks have separate statuses and are not reflected in the community recreation centre status or the park status. Operational status of Parks is set to always Open.

PFR publishes real-time updates directly on the Parks & Community Recreation Centres Map webpage.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Dataset Category Map
Refresh Rate Monthly
Collection Method
Excerpt This dataset provides information on the recreation facilities administered by Toronto's Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division.
Limitations
Owner Division Parks, Forestry & Recreation
Owner Section
Owner Unit
Owner Email opendata@toronto.ca
Author Email opendata@toronto.ca
Maintainer Email opendata@toronto.ca
Author opendata@toronto.ca
Civic Issues
Formats
  • CSV
  • SHP
  • GEOJSON
  • GPKG
Topics
  • Locations and mapping
  • Parks and recreation
Source
Information URL https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/parks-recreation/
Image URL
Last Updated 2025-05-01 20:24:19.739798
Is Retired? False
Date Published 2019-07-23 17:52:21.401168