Caribbean Winterfest is Blue Mountain Village's answer to a Canadian winter: a weekend of soca, calypso, steelpan and tassa drumming on an outdoor stage, carnival costumes against the snow, and a pedestrian village lit up around it. We run a bus from Toronto for the Saturday, in collaboration with the Blue Mountain Village Association.
The bus leaves from 34 Asquith Avenue, just north of Yonge and Bloor.
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We are running this one. The seats are not loaded into the booking system yet, so there is nothing to click. Leave your email and you will hear the moment it opens, which is usually before it goes anywhere else.
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Choose your own adventure: we drop you off, and the bus picks you up in the same spot.
A short, flat walk on even ground, at your own pace.
Not included
Caribbean Winterfest is a weekend festival in Blue Mountain Village put on with Toronto's Caribbean carnival community. Last year's Saturday ran a kids' carnival afternoon and an evening of performances on the outdoor stage: steelpan, soca and calypso, tassa drumming, parang, drumming circles and Caribbean dance, with costumed performers in feathers and sequins against the snow.
The Village publishes the programme for the weekend closer to the date, and the day is yours to spend at the stage, in the shops or at a table somewhere warm.
Feathers, sequins and a steel drum at minus five.
The Village sits at the foot of the Niagara Escarpment near Collingwood, a pedestrian resort village of shops, galleries and more than thirty restaurants, cafes and patios. In winter it is strung with lights, and last year a Holiday Magic light trail ran nightly from dusk.
Nothing to park and nothing to move between. The bus puts you down and everything is a few minutes' walk.
Thirty restaurants and no car between you and any of them.
One village, one stage, and the day is yours. The exact timings come with your trip details.
We pick you up
Just north of Yonge and Bloor subway station. Come up the Asquith exit and look for the bus.
A pedestrian resort village under the escarpment, hosting Caribbean Winterfest. The outdoor stage carries the performances; around it, shops, galleries and more than thirty restaurants, cafes and patios, all strung with lights for winter.
Good to know:
Facilities: More than thirty restaurants, cafes and patios, Shops and galleries, Washrooms throughout the village
Note: The festival programme is the Village's, and they publish it closer to the date.
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.
Dress for standing outside in late November. The stage is outdoors.
Caribbean Winterfest is put on by Blue Mountain Village with Toronto's carnival community, and they publish the weekend's line-up and times closer to the date.
Your Parkbus ticket is the bus. Anything the festival sells separately, you buy from them.
The stage is outdoors and it is late November on the escarpment. Expect snow, and expect to be standing in it.
Warm layers, a hat, gloves, and boots with grip. There is plenty of indoors to warm up in.
One date, Saturday 28 November. Tickets are not up yet; the date and the fares come straight from the booking system when they are.
Placeholder dates · the real ones come from our booking system
We're Canada's outdoor bus service. Since 2010 we've taken more than 300,000 people to parks and trails without a car. You bring a warm coat. We handle everything with wheels.
Soca, calypso, steelpan, tassa drumming and costumed dancers on an outdoor stage in a mountain village, in late November. It is exactly as good as that sounds.
Blue Mountain Village is pedestrian only. The stage, the shops, the restaurants and the light trail are all on foot from where the bus drops you.
We run this one together with the people who run the Village, which is why there is a bus for it at all.
Two hours up and two hours back on a November night, and none of it is yours.
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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.
This trip runs in collaboration with the Blue Mountain Village Association, who host Caribbean Winterfest and helped make a bus to it possible.
Somebody else drives the winter roads. You bring the energy.
Not quite the right fit? These all leave from the same spot downtown.
