VISITOR INFORMATION
Schedule / hours: 2017: Open year-round, Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m. o 9:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission price: 2017: FREE
Address: In Nathan Phillips Square, at the corner of Bay Street and Queen Street West
TorontoPhone: Dial 311 (new City line)
Website: www.toronto.ca/greenroofsNearby restaurants: • You can always count on the good old chip trucks on Queen Street along the Nathan Phillips Square. City Hall includes The Café on the Square at street level, offering a wide selection of food options.
While you are there: • The Eaton Centre is across the street, east of Bay Street.
Age group: 2 - 16 years old
Attraction suitable for:
Toddlers
Preschoolers
School
Preteen
Teen
Above it all
You go up to the podium roof (that’s the part of City Hall that looks like a spaceship) from the large ramp in Nathan Phillips Square. I though it was impressive to get closer to the curved towers. City Hall Podium Green Roof is a year-round garden made both of perennial and seasonal plants and tall grasses. The layout evolves over the seasons. The concrete path which runs around this green roof is half a kilometre long (and I’ve seen some beginner bike riders take advantage of this!). You get a good view over Nathan Phillips Square and you get to see the CN Tower from a different angle. When I visited, I could see that squirrels have already adopted the gardens.
