In the park on Eglinton Ave., just west of Yonge St., a building serves as a restroom and storage area.

Offensive graffiti covers its beige outside walls, including profanity, crude cartoons and racist comments. The park, which is behind the parks and recreation department's North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, is used regularly by groups of camp children.

"It's awful. You don't want the kids seeing that kind of stuff," said Jane Tavener as she walked in the park with her two kids.