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Highland Creek, Toronto — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Water first, then the name. Highland Creek meanders through a glacial ravine in Scarborough and empties into Lake Ontario.
About Highland Creek
Where to stay in Highland Creek
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Two sides, one ravine. Inland, the blocks of Highland Creek sit among the wooded slopes of the glacial ravine; toward Lake Ontario, the ground near the creek's mouth puts the Scarborough Bluffs within reach of a bed. Supply is thin either way.
The watershed is almost entirely contained within Scarborough, so a stay out here means the ravine, the creek and the lakeshore rather than the wider draw of Toronto.
About Highland Creek
What are the main landmarks in Highland Creek?
Fish, not monuments. Trout, salmon, bass and carp all work the channel of Highland Creek, which is the closest thing this stretch of Scarborough keeps to a headline attraction. The watershed helps explain why: main stem and tributaries together stay almost entirely inside Scarborough, so the ravine system is a local feature rather than a shared one.
The Scarborough Bluffs mark the other end of the story, standing at the point where the creek lets go into Lake Ontario.
What is the history of Highland Creek?
Ice wrote the first chapter. When the last Ice Age released the land, meltwater cut the ravine that Highland Creek still meanders along, the same origin most rivers in Toronto share. The name outlived the geology.
A neighbourhood carries it too, so Highland Creek reads twice on a map of Ontario: once as a watercourse holding trout and salmon, once as an address in Scarborough.
Where is Highland Creek?
Glacial ground shows everywhere. Cut after the last Ice Age, the ravine carries Highland Creek through Scarborough to its mouth on Lake Ontario.
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Updated September 2026