Taylor Creek Park follows a major tributary to the Forks of the Don River. Three rivers meet at the forks and form the Lower Don River: the East Don, the West Don and this tributary. Known by several names over the years, the two most commonly used names -- Taylor and Massey Creek -- are taken from two families with important historical ties to the area. A third name, Silver Creek, was used during the early 1800's.

Although not the first millers in the area, brothers John Jr., Thomas, and George Taylor moved here from Vaughan in 1834 to establish saw and paper mills. By 1851, the Taylors owned a water-powered saw mill. Three years later, the York Paper Mill was purchased from John Eastwood and Colin Skinner and later, a third mill, John Taylor and Brothers Paper Manufacturers, was added on the West Don River near the present North York border. The mills were extremely productive and employed 100 people by the 1900's. The Taylor lands extended from the river forks nearly a mile north of Eglinton Avenue, on both sides of Don Mills Road with more parcels in the Todmorden Mills area.

The tributary's current name, Massey Creek, refers to 1897 when Walter Massey purchased about 100 hectares of land from Dawes Road to Pharmacy Avenue. He named the estate Dentonia Farms after his wife, Susan Marie Denton, and produced milk here to help combat typhoid fever among Toronto children. In 1901, Walter Massey died after contracting the disease but his wife continued to operate the City Dairy Company until the 1930's. She built an enormous 100 room house which was given to the Crescent School for boys in 1933. Dentonia Park Golf Course is situated on part of the old estate.

A Canadian Northern Ontario Railway line ran along the southern slope of the valley after 1913 until it was sold in 1925 to the Canadian National Railway.

In 1959, the former Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority began acquisition of these lands before transferring management responsibilities to former Metropolitan Toronto. In 1994, the Boy Scouts of Canada planted over 5000 spruce and pine seedlings in Taylor Creek Park.

Vita Parcours fitness trail
Cross-country skiing (casual use)
Mature forests, scrub communities and marsh habitat support a diversity of wildlife and regionally rare plants (E.S.A. #62)
Connects to the Charles Sauriol Conservation Reserve