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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Break a Sweat
Ride the Mini Train at Bear Creek Park
A miniature railway, a rose garden, a waterfall, and a round of mini-golf in Surrey's 150-acre secret.
Break a Sweat
A miniature railway, a rose garden, a waterfall, and a round of mini-golf in Surrey's 150-acre secret.
Bear Creek Park is 150-odd acres of Surrey greenway that most Vancouver daters have never thought about, which is a mild tragedy because it contains a working miniature railway, a formal rose garden, and an actual waterfall, three things that separately would justify a date. The plan writes itself: ride the 12-inch-gauge train through the trees (sit in the front, the grinning is unavoidable), wander through the rose garden doing your best impression of people who know flower names, then follow Bear Creek along to the falls. Add a round of mini-golf if things get competitive. It's leafy and cheap and the unhurried pace is the whole point. Nothing accelerates a conversation quite like the shared absurdity of two grown adults squeezing themselves onto a very small train and waving at strangers.
