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Vancouver Park Guide

A review of all 240+ parks in the City of Vancouver

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Category Archives: Downtown

#12: sθәqәlxenәm ts’exwts’áxwi7/Rainbow Park

It is Vancouver’s newest park, Vancouver’s most expensive park — and it absolutely lives up to the hype. 

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 24, 2022January 15, 2023Posted inDowntownTags:Downtown parks, Rainbow Park, Vancouver parksLeave a comment on #12: sθәqәlxenәm ts’exwts’áxwi7/Rainbow Park

#19: David Lam Park

It’s the type of modern mix of green space, glass towers and ocean people associate with Vancouverism.

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 24, 2022December 25, 2022Posted inDowntownTags:David Lam Park, Downtown Vancouver parks, Vancouver parksLeave a comment on #19: David Lam Park

#33: Creekside Park

Go to Creekside, and you’ll understand a little bit why this city entrances — and why this exact spot was designed as one of its main selling points.  

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 24, 2022December 25, 2022Posted inDowntownTags:Creekside Park, Downtown Vancouver parks, Vancouver parksLeave a comment on #33: Creekside Park

#40: Harbour Green Park

If Harbour Green feels like a weird whiplash of things in a single park, well, Vancouver is a weird whiplash of a city. 

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 24, 2022December 25, 2022Posted inDowntownTags:Downtown parks, Harbour Green Park, Vancouver parksLeave a comment on #40: Harbour Green Park

#45: Andy Livingstone Park

There’s an uneasy tension in a park that caters both to families with school children, but also some of the most marginalized folks in society.

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 24, 2022Posted inDowntownTags:Andy Livingstone Park, Downtown Vancouver parks, Vancouver parksLeave a comment on #45: Andy Livingstone Park

#62: Sun Yat-Sen Garden

What we can say is Sun Yat-Sen Garden is an incredibly peaceful place to be. 

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 24, 2022December 25, 2022Posted inDowntownTags:Downtown Vancouver parks, Sun Yat-Sen Garden, Vancouver parksLeave a comment on #62: Sun Yat-Sen Garden

#66: CRAB Park

The most confusing thing about CRAB park are the pictures of crabs in the spay park.

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 24, 2022January 15, 2023Posted inBeaches, DowntownTags:CRAB Park, Downtown Vancouver parks, Vancouver beaches, Vancouver parksLeave a comment on #66: CRAB Park

#67: Coopers’ Park

You probably know it more as “that quirky park under Cambie Street Bridge”, but Coopers’ — named for the barrel-making industry that flourished in this area in early Vancouver — has more than just a fun backstory. 

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 24, 2022December 25, 2022Posted inDowntownTags:Coopers' Park, Downtown Vancouver parks, Vancouver parksLeave a comment on #67: Coopers’ Park

#70: Emery Barnes Park

It’s a slightly above-average generic downtown park, the sort you would fully expect to see in any large metropolis

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 24, 2022December 25, 2022Posted inDowntownTags:Downtown Vancouver parks, Emery Barnes Park, Vancouver parksLeave a comment on #70: Emery Barnes Park

#92: Coal Harbour Park

But while it’s fair to say the 1990s dreams for the neighbourhood didn’t pan out, the park right in the middle — funded through one of those newfangled development contributions — hit the mark.

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 23, 2022January 9, 2023Posted inDowntownTags:Coal Harbour Park, Coal Harbour parks, Downtown Vancouver parks, Vancouver parksLeave a comment on #92: Coal Harbour Park

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