Centennial Park, Municipal park in Toronto, Canada
Centennial Park is a large municipal park in Etobicoke, Toronto, with sports facilities, a golf course, a conservatory and an 11-acre man-made pond. Its low, wide wooden building with a dark brown shingled gabled roof and red-brown siding stands among trees and grass, fronted by a low wooden fence along a pale dirt path, with the city skyline beyond.
Centennial Park opened in 1967 for Canada's centennial, created by the Borough of Etobicoke on land from the Hirons' dairy farm; the rest of the farm was sold for housing in 1968. In 1976 it was one of two venues for the Summer Paralympics, and in 1998 it passed from Etobicoke to the amalgamated Toronto parks department. It hosted BMX racing at the 2015 Pan American Games, and its ski and snowboard operations closed in November 2022.
The park's name marks Canada's 1967 centennial, when the Borough of Etobicoke opened it on land from the Hirons' dairy farm. Its stadium, now Rob Ford Stadium, seats 3,500 and hosts athletics, soccer and occasionally kabaddi matches. The BMX track built for the 2015 Pan American Games remains in public use.
The park sits west of Highway 27 and north of Eglinton Avenue West in Etobicoke, with entrances off Centennial Park Road. Paths lead between the sports fields, the 11-acre pond and the marshland, and Centennial Hill rises on the site of a former municipal dump. The Etobicoke Olympium provides indoor facilities beside the outdoor pitches.
Centennial Hill, in the park's south end, was once a municipal dump and a transfer station before it became a designated toboggan hill. The park also holds a 7-acre marshland and an 11-acre man-made pond, and its BMX track, built for the 2015 Pan American Games, stayed open afterwards as a public legacy site.
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