WALKFUNNY
Day trip
Walk Funny
Escarpment, from Toronto
A stand-up comedian leads the hike. You'll learn almost nothing about trees and laugh for three hours straight.
Hosted by a stand-up comicGet on the list
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Nature, hacked.
Park days hosted by comedians, choir leaders and storytellers. Easy trails, a bus from downtown and a day you'll be retelling for weeks.
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From the team behind Parkbus
300,000+Parkbus riders since 2010
4.6 ★Parkbus on Google
16years of park trips
Why it's different
This isn’t a walk in the park.
- Algonquin
- Killarney
- The Bruce
- Arrowhead
- Sandbanks
- Pinery
Experience Ontario's best parks
Algonquin, the Bruce Peninsula, Georgian Bay. The provincial and national parks worth the two-hour trip, not the park down the street.
engaging host!With engaging hosts
Nobody is going to quiz you on bark. Our hosts are comedians, singers and storytellers. The park is the stage. The host is the show.
your ride from TorontoOn a comfortable coach bus
A coach from downtown Toronto, there and back. No car, no parking, no deciding who drives.
The trips
Pick your kind of fun.
Day trips, evenings and a few weekends from Toronto. One bus, one very good host.
WALKFUNNY
Day trip
CAMPFIRECHOIR
Overnight
Campfire Choir
Algonquin, from Toronto
Forty strangers, one fire, one song. Three-part harmony by the end of the night, whether you can sing or not.
Hosted by a sing-along choir leaderGet on the list
LIKE THE90s
Day trip
Like the 90s
Georgian Bay, from Toronto
Phones go in a bag at the bus. Everyone gets a disposable camera. Mixtape on the ride home. Prints in the mail.
Hosted by a DJ with a tape collectionGet on the list
SCARYSTORIES
Weekend
Scary Stories Weekend
A lodge near the park
A fire, a horror writer reading after dark and a ghost walk on Saturday night. Bring a friend you trust.
Hosted by a horror writer and a ghost-walk guideGet on the list
TRIVIA INTHE WOODS
Winter day
Trivia in the Woods
Snowshoes, from Toronto
Snowshoe in the morning, pub quiz in the warming hut by afternoon. The winning table rides home at the front of the bus.
Hosted by a pub quiz masterGet on the list
BOOK CLUBON A BUS
Day trip
Book Club on a Bus
Wherever the book is set
Everyone reads the same Canadian novel set where we're going. The author rides with us and reads from it on the trail.
Hosted by the authorGet on the list
DINNER INTHE DARK
Evening
Dinner in the Dark
Niagara Escarpment, from Toronto
A sunset walk, a long table, a meal served after dark and a storyteller who holds the whole table.
Hosted by a chef and a storytellerGet on the list
LOOKUP
Overnight
Look Up
Dark-sky park, from Toronto
An astronomer who makes the night sky funny, a dark-sky park and the bus home at midnight.
Hosted by our astronomerGet on the list
Nothing quite like that yet.
Tell us what you'd book and we'll build it. Suggest a trip
Come solo, leave with a crew
Get out there together.
Most people book on their own. By lunch you've got a group chat.
Find your trip
You came for the view. You'll be talking about the host.
One host, one big idea, one very good day in the park.
The details
How it works.
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The bus is included
Every trip leaves downtown Toronto. No car, no parking, no deciding who drives.
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No fitness required
The walks are easy on purpose. The host does the heavy lifting.
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Small groups
Sized for one bus and one host, so nobody gets lost at the back.
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Booked with a pro
Trips are run and sold by Parkbus, a TICO-registered travel company since 2010.
For teams
Take the whole team.
Any Nature Hack trip can run as a private day for your office, club or crew. We bring the bus and the host. You bring the people who need a day out.
Plan a team dayFirst bus, first seats
Get on the list.
The first Nature Hack dates go to the list. Tell us which trip you'd book and you'll hear before anyone else.
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