16 Facts About Stanley Park

Stanley Park is a 405-hectare public park in British Columbia, Canada that makes up the northwestern half of Vancouver's Downtown Peninsula, surrounded by waters of Burrard Inlet and English Bay.

Unlike other large urban parks, Stanley Park is not the creation of a landscape architect, but rather the evolution of a forest and urban space over many years.

On June 18,2014, Stanley Park was named "top park in the entire world" by Tripadvisor, based on reviews submitted.

Stanley Park was not attacked, but this was when it started to be thought of as a strategic military position.

When Lord Stanley made his declaration, there were still a number of homes on lands he had claimed for the park.

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Stanley Park Board ordered the [Chinese settlers] to leave the park; they were trespassers; but [they] would not go, so the Stanley Park Board told my father to set fire to the buildings.

The Stanley Park portion is just under half of the entire length, which starts at Canada Place in the downtown core, runs around Stanley Park, along English Bay, around False Creek, and finally to Kitsilano Beach.

In Stanley Park, a watch tower was built on the cliff directly above Siwash Rock and remains intact as an observation deck that is accessed from the trails above.

Stanley Park Zoo closed completely in December 1997 after the last remaining animal, a polar bear named Tuk, died at age 36.

The Stanley Park event started on Easter weekend in 1967 and took place each spring until the mid-1970s, when most of the counterculture movement had fizzled out.

Violent windstorms have struck Stanley Park and felled many of its trees numerous times in the past.

Stanley Park was designated a National Historic Site of Canada by the federal government in 1988.

Stanley Park was named the best park in the world in 2013, according to website Tripadvisor's first ever Travellers' Choice Awards.

Stanley Park has playgrounds, sandy beaches, gardens, tennis courts, an 18-hole pitch and putt golf course, a seaside swimming pool, a water spray park, and Brockton Oval, which is used for track sports, rugby, and cricket.

Stanley Park has a large number of monuments, including statues, plaques, and gardens.

Stanley Park is home to one of the largest urban great blue heron colonies in North America, and the birds have been documented nesting in various locations in Stanley Park as far back as 1921.