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The Beaches, Toronto — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Beaches is a Toronto neighbourhood named for its four beaches on Lake Ontario, bounded inland by Kingston Road and Dundas Street.
About The Beaches
Where to stay in The Beaches
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Two edges decide it. The Beaches runs from Victoria Park Avenue across to Coxwell Avenue, and where a room sits between those two matters less than whether it faces the Lake Ontario shore or the Kingston Road side of the neighbourhood. Dundas Street marks the turn.
Anyone here for the water should take the blocks below Kingston Road, while the larger hotel stock of Toronto sits beyond Coxwell Avenue toward downtown, a short run in either direction.
About The Beaches
What are the main landmarks in The Beaches?
The list runs small. George Davis House, the Church of Corpus Christi and Scarboro Beach Amusement Park are the three names the record fixes to The Beaches, one house, one parish building and one stretch of shore given over to amusement. Lake Ontario supplies the rest.
Four beaches line the water boundary, and they do more to mark the neighbourhood than any single building between Victoria Park Avenue and Coxwell Avenue.
What is the history of The Beaches?
Records give The Beaches no founding date. What the record keeps is the shape of the place, the four beaches that gave the neighbourhood its name and its position inside the "Old" City of Toronto, east of downtown. Scarboro Beach Amusement Park belongs to that older shore.
George Davis House is the other name the register carries from the same ground, and the two together tie The Beaches to a Lake Ontario frontage the city has long put to leisure.
Where is The Beaches?
The Beaches takes in the Lake Ontario frontage of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, between Victoria Park Avenue, Kingston Road, Dundas Street and Coxwell Avenue.
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Updated September 2026