Broke & Bougie
Garry Oaks and Cattle Point at Uplands Park
Seventy-six acres of rare Garry oak meadow in Oak Bay, with unsigned paths, April camas and flat rocks at the water.
Uplands Park and Cattle Point, Oak Bay
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Seventy-six acres of rare Garry oak meadow in Oak Bay, with unsigned paths, April camas and flat rocks at the water.
Uplands Park and Cattle Point, Oak Bay
More infoUplands Park is one of the last real Garry oak meadows anywhere, and Oak Bay has had the sense to leave it undeveloped. Informal paths thread between twisting oaks and rock outcrops that go blue with camas through April and May, and the park runs straight down to the water at Cattle Point, where the rocks are flat enough to sit on and the sky is dark enough that it is a designated urban star park. It is free, it never gets the crowd Willows Beach gets a few hundred metres south, and it takes exactly as long as you let it.
Park in the free lot at Cattle Point off Beach Drive and walk in from the shoreline. The paths are informal and unsigned, which is half the appeal: head inland through the oaks and rock outcrops, then loop back to the water. Forty minutes covers it at a wander. Wear something you do not mind muddying between November and March, and come in April or May if you want the camas doing its thing.
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