For the past two summers I take a bike ride along Toronto's waterfront, I should probably do it more but it seems like once a year satisfies my need to see the waterfront. I also do this bike ride on one of the summer holidays as I love how empty Toronto is on the summer long weekends. On this trip I like to stop at HTO Park. I think it is really cute little park and the first time I came across it I was surprised to find such an odd little place. I don't know the history of the area but I think it is a nice place to stop, take a look around and enjoy some sand. It is noisy, even on the morning of a long weekend, so there is no pretending you are actually at a beach, you have an airport to the right, ferry's to the left, a busy highway behind you as well as the CN Tower looming over head. But all this surrounding you and to be sitting on a Muskoka chair with your feed in the sand is kind of fun. I can't imagine spending the say there but as a pit stop on a yearly bike ride it seems like a little gem.