University, under the silver maples.

University Avenue is the wide ceremonial boulevard that runs north from Front Street to Queen’s Park, with a continuous landscaped median that the city has planted, since the late 1990s, primarily with silver maples and red oaks — replacing the original elm row lost to Dutch elm disease in the 1960s. The median is wide enough to walk; it’s signposted as a public path and connects, at its northern end, to the King’s College Circle on the U of T campus, which is ringed by red oaks planted in the 1850s and now among the largest specimens in the city. The picks below are the median walk plus a couple of campus extensions. They are graded for July noon, when the avenue’s heavy traffic makes the sidewalks loud but the median is quiet and cool.