Hancock Woodlands Park — Attraction in Mississauga

Heritage garden, natural playground for children, very neat park with green property which has an intresting history. It's a complex of nursery, landscaped home grounds and wooded sanctuary for native and naturalized plants, birds and animals. Walking trails, benches for having rest, parking is free, wheelchair parking available. Place is open for public. Today I discover a lot for me and my children visiting place. Good to know about Hancock Woodlands: • one of the many trees of note on the property is a sugar maple. It was grown from the seed of the oldest sugar maple in Ontario, located in Fonthill. "This tree has a 500-year-old mother," Carol Hancock noted. • one of the neighbours on Camilla Rd. who knew the Hancocks well was the last Grand Duchess of Russia, Olga Alexandrovna Romanov, who moved into the area in 1952. According to Dave Cook's book Fading History, "Olga would often wander through the nursery grounds looking for potentials water colour subjects to paint." She often enjoyed tea with Macklin Hancock's...

I love going to this park— the flowers and vegetables are amazing to look at. If you wish to go for a 20 minute walk with your dog or a lighter walk, this park is worth it. In August and September, you can see all the planted vegetables completely ripe (great place to show the kids how...

It's a nice neighbourhood park It's got a nice all the loop trail that you can walk around take your bike out to The small batch where they grow vegetables and stuff Right Now the seating area is closed off due to covid but it's a good spot if you're looking to just walk around...