It provides some benches and shade, but otherwise is tremendously underutilized.
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#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.
#220: Roundhouse Turntable Plaza
It’s an interesting place to wait while you pick someone up from the community centre.
#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.
#235: Yaletown Park
One has so many questions when visiting Yaletown Park. Most of them begin with “why?”
Vancouver Park Guide 