Beside Rouge National Urban Park, with newer housing at the city’s eastern boundary.
Written by Nick Ntoukas, Toronto realtor · Chestnut Park Real Estate · Updated August 2026
Rouge sits against the eastern boundary of the city beside Rouge National Urban Park — the largest urban park in North America, with genuine forest, farmland and river valley within it. The housing is predominantly newer subdivision development, larger and more uniform than the postwar stock elsewhere in Scarborough, on regular lots. It is quiet and green, and the park is an amenity of a scale nothing else in the city matches. The trade-off is distance: this is the far edge of Toronto, and daily travel depends on the 401 or the GO line.
Newer detached and semi-detached subdivision houses; townhouses; limited older stock.
Families seeking newer, larger houses, and buyers who value the park.
Rouge Hill GO; the 86 Scarborough and 131 Nugget buses.
Park-adjacent lots may have conservation or wildlife considerations. Confirm before planning changes.
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Straight-line distances from the centre of Rouge. Proximity is not catchment — check the board locators or ask Nick. School locations: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Educational Facilities, adapted; contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Canada.
Worth a look if you like Rouge — each has its own guide, live listings and schools.
Nick Ntoukas is a Toronto real estate agent with Chestnut Park Real Estate Limited, Brokerage — the exclusive Ontario affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate — working with buyers and sellers across the GTA, including Rouge. A written valuation of your Rouge home is free and arrives within 48 hours: call 647-208-8588 or request it online.