{"id":35403,"date":"2019-05-02T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=35403"},"modified":"2019-05-02T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T16:01:00","slug":"15-toronto-parks-will-soon-have-blossoming-cherry-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/local\/gta\/15-toronto-parks-will-soon-have-blossoming-cherry-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Toronto parks will soon have blossoming cherry trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may not feel like spring yet, but it&#8217;s a sure sign that it&#8217;s May in Toronto when the city&#8217;s thousands of\u00a0cherry trees are starting to blossom.<\/p>\n<p>Most people have experienced the crowds of enthusiasts who flock to High Park every year. The west end park has an impressive collection, many of which were planted 60 years ago after the Japanese ambassador presented 2,000 cherry trees, or Sakura trees, to the city on behalf of the people of Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s such a popular spot that, as of Saturday, High Park will be car-free during the peak of the blossoms, which usually last about one week.<\/p>\n<p>If crowds aren&#8217;t your thing,\u00a0the city created a map to help people find the other 1,150 trees at 14 other spots around the GTA, from Etobicoke, up to York University, and over to Scarborough.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where you can find all of the cherry trees in Toronto:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Birkdale Ravine,\u00a01100 Brimley Rd., Scarborough.<\/li>\n<li>Broadacres Park,\u00a035 Crendon Dr.,\u00a0Etobicoke.<\/li>\n<li>Cedar Ridge Park,\u00a0225 Confederation Dr.,\u00a0Scarborough.<\/li>\n<li>Cedarvale Park,\u00a0443 Arlington Ave., York.<\/li>\n<li>Centennial Park,\u00a0151 Elmcrest Rd., Etobicoke.<\/li>\n<li>Cherry Street and Villiers Street.<\/li>\n<li>Edwards Gardens, 755 Lawrence Ave. E, North York.<\/li>\n<li>High Park,\u00a01873 Bloor St. W., Toronto.<\/li>\n<li>Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre,\u00a06 Garamond Crt., North York.<\/li>\n<li>John P. Robarts Research Library,\u00a0130 St George St., Toronto.<\/li>\n<li>Toronto Island Park.<\/li>\n<li>Trinity Bellwoods Park,\u00a0790 Queen St. W., Toronto.<\/li>\n<li>University of Toronto Scarborough Campus, 1265\u00a0Military Tr., Scarborough.<\/li>\n<li>Woodbine Park,\u00a01695 Queen St. E., Toronto.<\/li>\n<li>York University,4700 Keele St., North York.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-35404\"><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">DR<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not feel like spring yet, but it&#8217;s a sure sign that it&#8217;s May in Toronto when the city&#8217;s thousands of\u00a0cherry trees are starting to blossom. Most people have experienced the crowds of enthusiasts who flock to High Park every year. The west end park has an impressive collection, many of which were planted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":35404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3538],"tags":[3999,3553,7880,7878,7879],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Crowds-flock-to-High-Park-for-the-annual-blossoming-of-the-cherry-trees.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}