VISITOR INFORMATION
Schedule / hours: 2017: Held on a Saturday in mid-September (check their website closer to September for the exact date) from 12 noon to at least 8:30 p.m (in 2011, there was night fly at 8 p.m.).
Admission price: 2017: FREE admission. (In 2011, they provided free sponsored material to build your own kite while the Kitefest in Milliken used to charge $5.)
Address: Woodine Beach, at the foot of Coxwell Avenue
TorontoPhone: Website: www.windfest.toNearby restaurants: • Food sold on the premises. Woodbine Beach includes a snack bar.
While you are there: • Explore the trail along the waterfront in adjacent Ashbridges Bay Park (by the large boulders on the western part of the beach). Woodbine Park, across Lake Shore Boulevard, includes a lovely playground, a pond and tall fountain.
Age group: 4 - 16 years old
Attraction suitable for:
Preschoolers
School
Preteen
Teen
On my wish list of places to visit
Windfest is a kite festival which has been offered for the last two years. It seems to be there to stay and it is a good thing since the Kitefest traditionally held in Milliken Park was shut down in 2010 thanks to a new municipal law forbidding people to fly their kites in that park. As with its predecessor, this event offers kite flying demonstrations from flyers from across North America, a kid’s zone, and you make your own kite or buy one on the premises. And it’s at the beach!
