Harbourfront, Toronto
Outing Category: Paved, People, high public visibility
Reality: Lots of clean pavement. If you're into "Kris Holm" antics lots of rails, posts and concrete walls to ride. People will stare at you and point. At Bathurst there's a community centre where you can play basketball. You can watch the water and cool off if the weather's hot. Or if it's windy and cool, freeze your ass off. Dress a little warmer than you're used to, unless you live by the lake. Usually pretty windy.
Where: Park to the east of the LCBO store on Cooper Street, off of Queen's Quay E. Parking is $3.00 for the day. Meet in the parking lot. Map

High Park, Toronto
Outing Category: Mixed paved and off-road
Reality: There are mostly paved trails. I've heard that there is a small zoo there, but I'm not sure. Come out and join us. There's 398.5 acres of park to explore. Cyclepath Park Map
Where: How to Get There: High Park is just west of Keele Street on Bloor Street West. From Gardner Expressway cut off at Dunn Street and travel west on Lakeshore Boulevard. Go north on Parkside to Bloor. Turn West (left) on to Bloor and enter the park on the left side. Go south in the park and park at the Grenadier Resteraunt. We'll meet here. The High park subway station is also close by. City of Toronto Description. If you're coming from Humber College, get on a TTC bus to the subway and take it east to High Park subway station.

1873 Bloor St W, Map

Humber Bay Park West, Toronto
Outing Category: Mixed paved, sand, trials obstacles
Reality: Start at the end of the Martin Goodman Bicycle Trail and ride east towards the city. This trail takes you along the water's edge of Lake Ontario. You can ride in the sand and play with the water, or take it easy and stroll using the nearby bike path. For those interested in trials, there are obstacles, rocks and large blocks to ride along the way.

Getting there: DVP to Gardener West, to Jameson to Lakeshore Boulevard, left hand road to Humber Bay Park West, follow to the last parking lot. Map. From Humber College, south on Hwy 27, continue south on Hwy 427, east on QEW to Parklawn, south on Parklawn, 0.5km west on Lakeshore to Humber Bay West Park (straight across at Lakeshore takes you to Humber Bay East Park)

Loretto College, Toronto
Outing Category: Practice Gym, so it's a clean, flat and smooth surface.
Reality: Practice your tricks and basketball here. Rubber pedals mandatory. Meet every Thursday at 7:00pm. You may meet some giggling girls either in the gym or in the hallway. They seem to not be used to guys in black lycra cycling shorts.
Where: Near Barton and Brunswick, close to Spadina and Bloor. Go round through the parking lot to the back. It looks like a pathway, but it's a driveway. Up the stairs at the back is the gym. Meet in the gym. Map

Mount Pleasant Cemetary, Toronto
Outing Category: Easy, flat, paved, smooth and mildly rolling hills.
Reality: Glenn Gould (#1050) is buried here, and so is Fredrick Banting, the guy who invented insulin. See lots of neat grave stones, birds, trees, gardens. Lots of area to cover and lots to see. Kids and parents can ride bikes with us.
Where: On Baview, south of Eglington, just north of Moore Ave. Park on Baview Avenue. The cemetary is on the west side of Baview. Meet at the East pedestrian entrance. Map Original Map

Toronto Island/Centre Island, Toronto
Outing Category: Unknown
Official Description: "The Toronto Islands were not always islands but actually a series of continuously moving sand-bars, or littoral drift deposits, originating from the Scarborough Bluffs and carried westward by Lake Ontario currents. By the early 1800s, the longest of these bars extended nearly 9 kilometres south-west from Woodbine Avenue, through Ashbridge's Bay and the marshes of the lower Don River, forming a natural harbour between the lake and the mainland." 2.48 kilometres of bicycle path from Hanlan's Point Ferry Dock to the Island Filtration Plant
Reality: Unknown
Where: Ferry from Yonge/Queen's Quay to either Hanlon Point, Centre Island or Ward's Island. City of Toronto Description. Map, Ferry Service