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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Adventure & Outdoors
Explore Renfrew Ravine
East Van's only creek-in-a-gorge park, where you swap SkyTrain hum for Still Creek and dappled forest light in about 30 minutes.
Adventure & Outdoors
East Van's only creek-in-a-gorge park, where you swap SkyTrain hum for Still Creek and dappled forest light in about 30 minutes.
It's the kind of place you'd walk right past without knowing it's there, and that's the entire point. Renfrew Ravine is a sliver of genuine wilderness dropped into East Vancouver, the only park in the city where a creek runs through a real, steep-sided natural gorge. New boardwalks, bridges and timber staircases let you descend right down to Still Creek, swapping the hum of the SkyTrain above for the trickle of water and dappled forest light below. It's small enough to wander thoroughly in half an hour, which makes it excellent for dates where someone (you know who) has commitment anxiety about committing to a two-hour hike. Free, open dawn to dusk, five minutes on foot from 29th Avenue station. Pair it with a coffee on nearby Kingsway and you've got a whole afternoon sorted.
