Downsview Park Sports Centre

The Downsview Park Sports Centre offers a wide selection of sports options for the player in you. Facilities include The Hangar (with indoor and outdoor fields), GrandPrix Kartways, HoopDome, PEAC School for Elite Athletes, The Rail Skate Park, Toronto School of Circus Arts, Toronto Roller Derby League and DefCon Paintball. Coming in early 2010 are facilities for squash and rock-wall climbing.

Operations at the Sports Centre generate funds to help build Downsview Park. The Downsview Park Sports Centre is growing to become the leading centre of athletic excellence in the GTA as the development of the Downsview Park Sustainable Community progresses. Downsview Park continues to pursue its vision of offering the community a world class sports facility while nurturing athletic ability from the playground to the podium.

The Hangar

The Hangar is one of the best-known destinations at Downsview Park. A year-round roster of soccer, beach volleyball and ball hockey at the Hangar has established Downsview Park as a leading venue for sports in Toronto. Join a league or rent a field, court or arena for a private function or tournament. For more information click here.

Defcon Paintball

Defcon Paintball at Downsview Park offers a thrilling outdoor paintball experience. The facility is conveniently located off the series of 400 highways and is easily accessible via transit, in the city of Toronto . Their goal is to promote paintball as a safe, physically rewarding and team building sport.For more information visit http://defconpaintball.ca.

GrandPrix Kartways

With 47,000 square feet of indoor space, GrandPrix Kartways is an integral part of Downsview Park, providing various racing activities that draw large numbers of visitors while promoting healthy and safe family experiences, all in an environmentally- friendly fashion using electric go-karts. For more information go to www.gpkartways.com.

HoopDome

HoopDome is a state of the art, multi gymnasium basketball only facility located at Downsview Park. For more information go to www.hoopdome.com.

PEAC School for Elite Athletes

PEAC is on the leading edge of athletic development in Canada, designed to provide high performing student athletes with a unique opportunity to learn and train in a state-of-the-art athletic facility. Students attending PEAC study and train within a school campus that contains both educational and athletic facilities. PEAC School For Elite Athletes answers the needs for high performing athletes by delivering the Ontario Curriculum in small class sizes, with Ontario Certified Teachers. Students benefit from the use of laptops, smartboards and wireless access to the internet where lessons are updated online daily. Flexible deadlines and high academic standards truly seperates PEAC from any other school in Canada. PEAC "Where athletes come to learn". For further information about PEAC visit www.peac.ca.

The Rail Skate Park

Downsview Park's The Rail Skate Park, a 7,500 square foot state of the art indoor skate facility includes granite ledges, straight and kink rails and ramps, a four-foot mini ramp, a tombstone and more for beginner to expert skate boarders. Go to www.therailskatepark.com for further details.

Toronto Roller Derby League

The Toronto Roller Derby League (ToRD) is the largest flat-track derby league in Canada boasting nearly 80 active skaters! The Gore-Gore Rollergirls, Chicks Ahoy!, Death Track Dolls, Smoke City Betties, and CN Power are thrilled to bring Toronto the finest jams, checks, hits, blocks, knocks, bumps and bruises yet seen on wheels!

The mission of ToRD is to make roller derby a thing of the present and the future, not a nostalgic sport of the past. They blend athleticism with entertainment so that sports fans, and not-so-sporty types can all enjoy a little roller derby action in Toronto! For more information go to www.torontorollerderby.com/

Toronto School of Circus Arts

The Toronto School of Circus Arts is Canada’s largest, most established privately operated school for modern circus. They offer both adults and children year-round instruction in a variety of aerial and ground disciplines such as flying trapeze, silks, hoop, acrobatics, hand-balancing, and Chinese poles.

For more information visit www.torontocircus.com

True North Climbing

COMING SOON! True North Climbing will rock your world with a large new indoor rock climbing facility, scheduled to open early in 2010. The new gym will feature over 14,000 square feet of climbing terrain, including top rope, lead climbing and bouldering. The routes and problems will span all levels of difficulty, so a beginner can have as much fun as an expert climber.

For more information about the progress of the construction and plans visit: www.truenorthclimbing.com