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looking across to downtown from the path around False Creek
Pacific Spirit Regional Park
This 762-hectare (1,880-acre) park on the Vancouver peninsula offers 35 kilometers (22
miles) of hiking trails through a forested environment similar to that which greeted the first
European settlers more than 200 years ago. A good starting point is the
Pacific Spirit Re-
gional Park Centre
(16th Ave. W., west of Blanca St., 604/224-5739, 8am-4pm Mon.-Fri.),
which has a supply of trail maps. The entire park is crisscrossed with trails, so although
getting seriously lost is impossible, taking the wrong trail and ending up away from your
intended destination is easy. One good trailhead is opposite a residential area in the east of
the park, at the junction of Imperial Road and King Edward Avenue. From this point, the
Imperial Trail heads west through a forest of red cedar and fir, crosses Salish Creek, then
emerges on Southwest Marine Drive, across the road from a plaque that notes the many ex-
plorers who contributed to opening up Vancouver to European settlement. From this lofty
viewpoint, the view extends across the Strait of Georgia. This trail is 2.8 kilometers (1.7
miles) one-way; allow two hours for the round-trip.
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