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Vancouver Park Guide

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

  • Neighbourhoods and Rankings
    • From Worst to Best
    • Top 10 Parks
    • #11-20
    • #21-30
    • #31-40
    • #41-50
    • Arbutus
    • Downtown
    • Dunbar-Southlands
    • Fairview
    • Grandview-Woodland
    • Hastings-Sunrise
    • Kensington-Cedar Cottage
    • Kerrisdale
    • Killarney
    • Kitsilano
    • Marpole
    • Mount Pleasant
    • Oakridge
    • Renfrew-Collingwood
    • Riley-Little Mountain
    • Shaughnessy
    • South Cambie
    • Strathcona
    • Sunset
    • Victoria-Fraserview
    • West End
    • West Point Grey
    • Beaches

Category Archives: Downtown

#199: Helmcken Park

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

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 23, 2022January 9, 2023Posted inDowntownTags:Downtown Vancouver parks, Helmcken Park, Vancouver parksLeave a comment on #199: Helmcken Park

#205: Portal Park

There’s a picture of a globe in the middle; a sign of the city’s worldly ambition in the 1980s, with the politics of the park being a product of a land swap with a developer long forgotten.

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 23, 2022January 9, 2023Posted inDowntownTags:Downtown Vancouver parks, Portal Park, Vancouver parksLeave a comment on #205: Portal Park

#220: Roundhouse Turntable Plaza

It’s an interesting place to wait while you pick someone up from the community centre.  

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 23, 2022January 9, 2023Posted inDowntownTags:Roundhouse Turntable plaza, Vancouver parksLeave a comment on #220: Roundhouse Turntable Plaza

#222: Wendy Poole Park

The lack of amenities and small size means it is rarely used — perhaps emblematic of our continued ability to raise up symbols, and then move on without further work done. 

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 23, 2022January 9, 2023Posted inDowntownTags:Vancouver parks, Wendy Poole ParkLeave a comment on #222: Wendy Poole Park

#235: Yaletown Park

One has so many questions when visiting Yaletown Park. Most of them begin with “why?”

Posted byJustin McElroyJanuary 21, 2022January 9, 2023Posted inDowntownTags:bad park, concrete, Downtown, Vancouver parks, why, Yaletown ParkLeave a comment on #235: Yaletown Park

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