Vancouver - Stanley Park

Situated on a small peninsula immediately west of the Vancouver city center, Stanley Park is a 405 ha (1000 acre) park-cum-nature reserve with a host of sights and leisure facilities including an aquarium. Particularly on the western side of the peninsula there are numerous huge, centuries-old, red cedar and Douglas fir trees. Being earmarked for use if repairs were needed to sailing ships of the British navy, they escaped the woodcutter's axe and saw. Stanley Park, now criss-crossed by more than 80 km (50 mi.) of trails and roads, was handed over to the then new town of Vancouver in 1888 by the Governor General of Canada, Lord Stanley.

A seawall rims Stanley Park and is a popular walking, jogging, or biking path, with