Both coaches are gone. Every seat on the first bus went, we added a second one, and that sold out too. Thank you, and sorry if you missed it. There are still leaf trips running this month from the same spot downtown, and they are listed further down this page.
Photographs from the trip
Every photo here is from one of the two coaches that went. Same route, same stops. We will run it again next autumn.
Sold out
There are no seats left on any date we have up for Algonquin at Peak Colour. Leave your email and we will tell you the day new dates go up, while there is still a choice of them.
Leaving Toronto in the meantime
Cancel 14 or more days before you go and you get 90% back.
Choose your own adventure: we drop you off, and the bus picks you up in the same spot.
You choose the day. Paddle, bike, walk a trail or sit by the water.
Ontario Parks has Algonquin at 50 percent colour with no leaf fall, and says there are spectacular views the whole length of the Highway 60 corridor right now.
It also tells drivers to buy a daily vehicle permit up to five days ahead to guarantee they get in, to use the designated parking areas, and not to park on the roadside, because it is dangerous and illegal. On a peak colour Saturday those lots fill early.
None of that is your problem on the bus. Park admission is in your fare, the coach drops you at your stop, and you spend the day looking at the colour instead of looking for a parking space.
One bus, one Saturday, twenty seats.
This bus is running our guided Track and Tower hike, so it makes three stops for day trippers on the way in and collects everyone on the way home. All three sit on the water, so you get the colour and the reflection of it.
We pick you up
34 Asquith Avenue, about 100 metres north of the Yonge and Bloor subway entrance, on the Yonge Street side. There may be more than one coach, so check you are in the right queue.
Hills of maple around a quiet lake, right where the bus lets you off. Walk the Beetle Lake trail into the colour, or see it from the water: Algonquin Outfitters' base is here, so a canoe, kayak or paddleboard is a few steps away. Ragged Falls is close by, and there is a café on site.
Good to know:
The lake Tom Thomson painted, with maples down to the shore. Watch the canoe trippers set off, walk the shoreline, or rent a canoe or paddleboard and get out in the middle of it. There is a store and a place to eat at the landing.
Good to know:
The Old Railway Bike Trail runs flat and straight through the maples from here, so you can cover a lot of colour without climbing anything. Bikes are rented at the Two Rivers Store. There is a beach, a store for lunch, and trailheads within reach if you would rather walk.
Good to know:
We drop you back
The bus returns to the same place it left from, so you go home the way you came.
This is our estimated return time, not a guarantee. Traffic can change it and some trips do run late, so please leave yourself some room afterwards rather than booking something tight against it.
Fall days up there are cold in the morning and warm by mid afternoon.
This coach is running our guided Track and Tower hike. You are not on the hike and you do not have a guide. We drop you at your stop, you do your own day, and we collect you on the way home.
The hikers are picked up at 5:00 PM. Your own pickup time is on your ticket, so check it before you wander off, and be at the stop ten minutes early.
Both Algonquin peak colour coaches have sold out. There is no third one.
This season has sold out
We're Canada's outdoor bus service. Since 2010 we've taken more than 300,000 people to parks and trails without a car.
Colour is at 50 percent and climbing. You watch it from the window instead of watching the road.
Park admission is in the fare, and the lots along Highway 60 fill early on a colour weekend. Not your problem.
Oxtongue Lake, Canoe Lake or Lake of Two Rivers. Colour, and the reflection of it.
Out and back in a day. Read or sleep on the way home.
★★★★★ 4.6/5.0 on Google
Booked in minutes, had an unreal day in Algonquin, and was home by dinner.Cameron · Happy Parkbus customer
Used this service for a weekend in Algonquin. These guys stuck to the schedule well and ambassadors checked everyone in at their pickups. Easy drop offs all across the park and across the city. Reasonably priced and no need to think about a rental car to get to the wilderness.James Johnson · Happy Parkbus adventurer
This is a great service if you don't have a vehicle or just don't want to drive. I'm so happy to have discovered this. There will definitely be more Parkbus trips in my future!James Taylor Wilson · Happy Parkbus customer
This is the 1st time I used Parkbus but it won't be the last.Brenda H. · Google
Factor in the cost of gas, parking and renting a car, it's a lot cheaper than taking a personal vehicle.Toronto Star
Parkbus is a great option for nature lovers, whether it's a day trip or overnight camping getaway.The Globe and Mail
Cancel more than 14 days before departure and you get a 90% refund, with 10% withheld for payment processing. Inside 14 days refunds are not available, except for a medical emergency in the 48 hours before departure, which needs a signed doctor’s note within 14 days of the missed trip and returns 50%. Tickets are transferable: you can change the passenger name up to 48 hours before departure.
If Parkbus cancels a trip, you get a full refund. We decide no later than 48 hours before departure and only on confirmed conditions: the park closed or the park authority asking us to stand down, an evacuation order or alert, an area restriction order, the highway closed, or the trip judged unsafe to run. A forecast is not one of those things, and trips run rain or shine.
Other autumn trips are still running from the same spot downtown.
Not quite the right fit? These all leave from the same spot downtown.
