Justin McElroy

#191: Cathedral Square

The best that can be said about Cathedral Square, as it exists in 2022, is that it has good bones.

#192: Creekway Park

The unique pedestrian and cycling path is helpful, and is certainly an upgrade over the gravel parking lot that used to sit there.

#193: Park Site at Renfrew

There’s a little path that surrounds the park, and a couple of benches and a water fountain, but it’s too small to do anything and the view of the port is much the same as you’ll see in other parks.

#194: Valdez Park

This is the only official off-leash dog park between Jericho Beach, Kits Beach, and King Edward, which might explain why Valdez Park is so busy with dogs all the time.

#195: Choklit Park

If we were ranking parks for interesting architecture and backstory, Choklit Park would be significantly higher on this list.

#196: Cardero Park

It’s waterfront property in downtown Vancouver, and it’s hard to truly dislike a park that has that going for it.

#197: Pigeon Park

It is far from perfect or ideal for anyone, and many of the adjectives used in the 60s and 70s could be used today, if you were so inclined.

#198: Shannon Park

But it’s another field next to a school — in this case, the Vancouver Hebrew Academy — that’s meant for baseball and soccer, and little else.

#199: Helmcken Park

It provides some benches and shade, but otherwise is tremendously underutilized.

#200: Cambridge Park

The westernmost of the Wall Street parks, Cambridge offers a long strip of grass with some trees in the middle.