It’s waterfront property in downtown Vancouver, and it’s hard to truly dislike a park that has that going for it.
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#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.
#201: Grimmett Park
It’s fine enough for the community. Unless you live mere blocks away though, seek refuge elsewhere.
#202: Kerrisdale Park
You can play baseball. And you can watch people play baseball. And that’s pretty much that.
#203: Gordon Park
In short, it may be the least interesting park, acre per acre, in the city.
#204: Braemar Park
No benches, no changes in the topography and no amenities for kids make it underwhelming for any use other than sport, or a short reprieve from a hospital stay.
#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.
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