Adventure & Outdoors
A 38-hectare forest that used to be the city dump, which is your new favourite icebreaker and a legitimately lovely walk in southeast Vancouver.
The opener writes itself: this whole forest used to be a dump. And it did. Everett Crowley Park is Vancouver's most successful glow-up, a 38-hectare urban forest in Champlain Heights that was once the city landfill and is now laced with the Snake, Vista and Creekside loop, winding past Mount Everett, Manfred's Meadow and little Avalon Pond while the traffic noise fades to nothing within minutes and birdsong takes over. Mostly flat with just enough gentle rise to feel like exercise rather than a stroll, it takes about 45 minutes to an hour, and the bird population makes it quietly excellent if either of you has binoculars. Blissfully uncrowded compared to the famous trails across town, which is either a useful tip or a smug observation, depending on how long you have lived here.
