Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Long been recognized as one of the largest parks in the world, Stanley Park is one of the crown jewels of Vancouver. Stanley Park, Vancouver is the first park and one of the main attractions of the city, and is an evergreen oasis of 400 hectares (1,000 acres) near the city center. Its natural west coast and First Nations atmosphere offers a backdrop of majestic cedar, hemlock and fir trees that welcomes visitors from around the world and delivers them in an environment rich inPeace. The park is home to various wildlife and its features appeal to the naturalist, the plant or a lover who do nothing but relax in beautiful surroundings.

Stanley Park in 1888 by the British Lord Stanley of Preston, which opened later, the Earl of Derby. The largest municipally owned park in Canada and third largest in North America, the Stanley Park is more than ten percent larger than New York's Central Park and almost half the size of LondonRichmond Park

Each year the park attracts about eight million visitors, citizens and tourists who come for its recreational facilities, gardens, seawall and ocean views. The famous dam path that surrounds the park is used by more than 2.5 million pedestrians, sight-seers, cyclists and inline skaters every year. Most of the park with old trees and an estimated half a million trees, which can be as large as 76 meters (250 ft) and hundreds of years old-growth forests. E 'are also about 125 miles of trails and roads around the park patrol, the Vancouver City Police horse mounted squad. The project for public spaces Stanley Park in the sixteenth best park in the world and sixth best in North America.

A large number of leisure facilities of high quality are available in Stanley Park, including a pitch and putt golf course by the spring blooming Ted and Mary Greig Rhododendron Garden borders. The park is the heart offormal rose garden, perennial land plants looking their best from April to September surrounded.

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