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Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation (PFR) is the division of Toronto's municipal government responsible for maintaining the municipal park system and natural spaces, regulation of and provision of urban forestry services, and the delivery of recreational programming in city operated facilities. With a gross annual operating budget in 2022 of 481.9 million, and a 10 year capital budget of $2.7 billion, the division operates 1473 named parks, 839 sports fields, 137 community centres, nearly 670 other recreational facilities, and is also responsible for the city's over 3 million trees. PF&R employs over 4,000 permanent and temporary full time and part time, unionized and non unionized staff, and is one of the city's largest services. The division is led by a general manager, presently Janie Romoff, and is organizationally part of the city's Community and Social Services cluster.

Parks, Forestry and Recreation’s vision is for Toronto to be known by the world as a “City within a Park”, a tapestry of parks, open spaces, rivers and streets that will connect their neighbourhoods and join them with their clean, vibrant lakefront.

The division is organized into six branches: Community Recreation; Parks; Urban Forestry; Management Services; Parks Development and Capital Projects; and Policy & Strategic Planning.

Community Recreation is responsible for providing recreational programming. It operates 137 community centres, 48 indoor ice pads, 64 outdoor ice pads, 65 indoor pools, and 59 outdoor pools. The branch has four service areas, community recreation, aquatics, customer service, and standards and innovation. The branch organizes itself into five districts, modeled on the former municipalities: Etobicoke/York (West), North York (North), Scarborough (East), Toronto/East York (South), and West Toronto/York (split from Etobicoke/York and Toronto/East York in 2018).

Aquatics is part of Community Recreation and is responsible for the operation of the City's 65 indoor pools, 59 seasonal outdoor pools, 100 wading pools, 93 splash pads, the Kidstown water park, and providing aquatic instructional programs. PFR operates several Olympic sized swimming pools, including the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, and the Etobicoke Olympium. Instructional programs include the Learn to Swim program and Ultra levels, which were developed with the Lifesaving Society, SPLASH Swim Team, stroke improvement, junior lifeguard courses, and lifesaving courses including National Lifeguard certification. Leisure swim is offered free of charge at all pools operated by the division. The waterfront supervision program was formerly under the Toronto police as the Toronto Police Lifeguard Service, but was transferred to PFR following a 2017 modernization initiative.

The division releases a semi annual booklet called the FUN Guide, providing information on programs and services available for people of all ages. There is a booklet produced for each city district: Etobicoke York, North York, Scarborough, Toronto & East York, and West Toronto York. The booklet is organized by topics such as: Adapted/Integrated Services, Preschool, Registration, Arts, Camps, Fitness and Wellness, Jobs, Leadership, Older Adults, Permits, Skating, Ski & Snowboarding, Sports, Swimming, Youth, and Volunteers. Other recreational activities and services provided by the division are: camping facilities, community centres, cycling, discovery walks, golfing, and tennis.

The City offers a subsidy to help low income individuals and families access recreational programming, provided in the form of a credit on the City's "efun" system. As of 2018, the credit is $537 for children and youth, and $249 for adults and seniors.

Parks' responsibilities include the operation of approximately 1500 parks, providing ferry service to and from the Toronto Islands, managing the two animal farms and High Park Zoo, administrating the community gardens program, and providing plants for the city's gardens and conservatories.

In 2003, Parks introduced mobile outreach crews which aim to connect the homeless population in the parks system with agencies and other City divisions that provide support. The program conducts park visits and safety visits across the city.

In September 2020, the City estimated that 350 to 400 people living in homeless encampments in the park system. During the Covid 19 pandemic, health measures at shelters was inadequate which led to a rise in encampments in parks. In October 2020, the Ontario Superior Court ruled that the City did not comply with physical distancing measures in the shelter system. The by law which prohibits camping and setting up camps in parks was challenged by a group of homeless residents in 2020 on the grounds that it violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A court rejected the motion, ruling that the Charter does not grant the right to live in parks.