Aside from being a helpful off-leash dog area, it’s objectively not the greatest use of such a large waterfront space.
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#174: Meditation Park
The benches all face the ocean and provide a wonderful view of Lions Gate Bridge and the north shore.
#181: Harbour View Park
If you enjoy looking at giant shipping containers with mountains as a backdrop, this is probably the superior choice among the Wall Street pocket parks.
#186: Bates Park
To call it a “park” is a stretch. It’s mostly a small collection of short, somewhat patchy trails that connect with the Trans-Canada Trail and Burnaby’s Montrose Park.
#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.
#207: Portside View Park
“There’s no Portside View so the title is pretty misleading.”
#209: Hastings Community Park
The problems that plague the park aren’t exactly fixable, but it still serves its purpose for people living nearby adequately enough.
#212: Commissioner Park
As the west side of Vancouver has the Point Grey miniparks, the east side has the Wall Street ones — small waterfront green spaces for the enjoyment of the public.
#228: Thunderbird Park
With so many parks in the city, it’s inevitable that some of them will need more TLC than others, but it’s particularly noticeable at Thunderbird Park, where exposed rust permeates through the 1980s play structure
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