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| - A slew of 5 star ratings? 4.5 star average? Please. I frequent a number of parks throughout the city for work in addition to leasure, and let me tell you, apart from having a big statue of a guy on horse with historical significance in it, this park is nothing special.
When I first noticed there were Yelp ratings for parks, I checked a handful of some I'm familiar with; and I was unhappily surprised by how harsh the reviews were. But I thought, 'well I guess there are some high park standards out there,' pun intended. High Park. High five. But now that I see this Queen's Park review, it is clear: these Yelp folk really don't know what they're talking about.
Speaking of High Park: how on Ghod's Green Earth does this park get the same rating as High Park. Anyone? High Park is objectively better. Every single person should agree. If you give this park the same rating as High Park you are flatly wrong and should abstain from park reviewing.
Okay so star system reviews are all about relativity right? The best park ever is 5 stars, the worst is 0. Can it even be argued this park get above four stars?
Queen's Park doesn't even play in the same league as a High Park, a Withrow Park, a Trinity Bellwoods Park, a Riverdale Park, a Greenwood Park, an Ashbridges Bay Park, a Colonel Samuel Smith Park, a Cedarvale Park.
There is no pool, no tennis courts, no skating rink, no off leash dog area, no playgrounds, no ping pong tables, no fire pits, no fantastic views, no densely wooded areas, no flower garden, no stage, no bodies of water, no hills, no baseball diamond, no soccer field.
Although it is big enough to get a comfortable distance away from the road traffic that cloisters its squirrely haven, there is not a nook in the square in which you can't see and hear the cars passing by on either side. There is a drinking fountain in the park but, at the time of this writing, it is broken. As far as a square of flat land with sparsely placed trees and a liberal peppering of foot paths go, this park is great. I don't even mean that facetiously, I really do like it, even the mulch patch design appears to have been given a fair amount of thought by a talented landscaper. But Queen's Park doesn't have the stuff to go 4.5 stars. I'm sorry Yelp. Hate me.
My hypothesis is there are a number of office dwellers who come here on their lunch break with their $9.89 Loblaws salmon rolls; they sit down, and think wow it's so nice to be on my break outside- wow a squirrel; the huge high they get from just being outside on lunch break is then reflected in review form. If the park was simply a patch of dirt of the same size, suitable for eating ones lunch in, the same people would probably give it a respectable three stars if they saw the same squirrel.
If you're a tourist or new to TO, please do not think this park is anything worth going out of your way to visit, you will waste your time and I will be sad.
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