York Mills Road

York Mills Road is an east-west route in Toronto, Ontario, Canada named for the historic village of York Mills that was located on the hill immediately north of today's intersection of York Mills Road and Yonge Street. The village of York Mills is distinguished from the 1920s subdivision to the south known as Hoggs Hollow. "York" refers to York Township and "Mills" refers to the gristmills and sawmills that once operated (1804–1926) in the valley through which the Don River runs.

York Mills runs east from Yonge Street as a continuation of Wilson Avenue and ends at Victoria Park Avenue. Just west of Victoria Park, the through road defaults onto Parkwoods Village Drive, which serves as a link connecting through traffic to Ellesmere Road, while the short easternmost section of York Mills itself is a bypassed two-lane side street. These roads form a parallel alternative to the nearby Highway 401. Based on early surveys of Toronto and York County, York Mills Road was the Fifth Concession.

In the 1970s, when the Toronto Transit Commission extended the Line 1 Yonge subway line north from the Eglinton terminus, a new roadway alignment from York Mills to Wilson was completed in 1973 to accommodate 96 Wilson Avenue buses running directly to the new York Mills subway station rather than travelling south on Yonge Boulevard to Yonge Street terminus at Glen Echo Loop. Landmarks along York Mills Road include a recreation complex at Bayview Avenue, York Mills Collegiate Institute, a large Rogers Communications complex past Leslie Street, and the former site of the Upjohn Company of Canada near Don Mills Road at Upjohn Road.