Adventure & Outdoors
Vancouver's oldest park and its best uncrowded harbour walk, with North Shore mountains, drifting freighters and a restored salt marsh doing the work.
The seawall gets all the glory, which is exactly how New Brighton Park stays so pleasantly uncrowded. This is Vancouver's oldest park, a grassy East Van harbour front in Hastings-Sunrise where the Burrard Inlet sits right at the edge of the path and the North Shore mountains line up across the water doing their best calendar-shoot impression. Walk the shoreline trail past the restored salt marsh, watch for the inevitable freighter making its slow, dignified crossing, and keep an eye out for the occasional float plane doing the same. Loop up toward Hastings Park if your legs want more. Flat, free and dog-friendly, with the kind of quiet the famous walks gave up years ago. Come late afternoon and the light on those mountains is doing something so obviously romantic that it needs no help from you.
