Hidden beneath Trinity Bellwoods Park is one of Toronto’s strangest buried pieces of infrastructure: a fully intact bridge.
Commissioned by public works commissioner R.C. Harris in 1914–15, the bridge was originally built to carry traffic over a proposed extension of Crawford Street. But when the surrounding plans changed and the roadway was never completed, the city chose not to demolish the structure. Instead, the bridge was simply buried beneath the park landscape, where it still remains today.
Most people pass over it without ever realizing it’s there — a hidden piece of Toronto literally lying beneath their feet.