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The Park and Downtown TO THE NORTH SHORE, PROSPECT POINT GROUSE MOUNTAIN, CYPRESS MOUNTAIN & MT. SEYMOUR Lions Gate Bridge SE A 604.669.2737 W A L Stanley Park L B SEAWALL Information Booth il Attractions Sports Clubs ra T k U . l Pay Parking c Trai l t o i Stanley Park Horse-Drawn Tours Brockton Cricket Pavilion R P R a h r First Aid Station (seasonal) s t T a c R Brockton Point Interpretive Stanley Park Lawn Bowling Club w e Washroom* i n S p o A Centre & Gift Shop (Totem Poles) s Vancouver Rowing Club P r o s Universal Access Washroom* i R v Malkin Bowl/Theatre Under the Stars l Royal Vancouver Yacht Club A i D a Water Drinking Fountain r T SE Stanley Park Train AW s AL Gift Shop e Park Drive I L Prospect Point Lookout & Gift Shop l e N Siwash r i on T Restaurant e acco ra E Rock M R il e a L Vancouver Aquarium e g l E d e Concession Stand a k T T c s T i r r a Picnic Area g ai h n l i l i C l Activity Areas w Public Telephone a R SEAWALL Bus Stop Bike Rentals (Yes Cycle) R e s e r v o i r Tr a i l L 604.602.3088 L Shuttle Stop (June 7 to Sept 4) Brockton Oval A l i W l A a i l Mobi Bike Share Ceperley Playground (inset A) i E r a B r a S T r r T id H a n s o n T Harbour Cruises s l e WALL e P e EA a n S e N i t Lumberman’s Arch Picnic Area l l v h o i i h o m T p s o a Big Tree r a n r Pipeline Road r T t R e Summer Cinema (Ceperley Field) r h T a M Dog Off-Leash Area h i l C l c r i Pitch & Putt Course l a i a e r T a e e Ecology Society e r B k k T Prospect Point Picnic Area L a r l d T e e r r i v n Garden a a Putting Green h i n l e kilometres 1 km 2 km 3 km 4 km T u Viewpoint Second Beach B T Park Drive Park Beaver Stanley Park Train Second Beach Picnic Area (inset A) Third miles 1 mile 2 miles S Lake Basketball Beach q l Second Beach Swimming Pool T L a a i u k e Tr B T r l i a l a a r T i s d Golf r t i Stanley Park Nature House l i r o d a l k l W w e Beave l r Lake l e Playground Tennis Courts (Lost Lagoon) W Tra i l a k P l l l Wr k a en Softball i a Trail Tennis Courts (English Bay) t S a h r W o glet in Swimming T u K T Third Beach s t r s r S h a i e g t C l Tennis n v a Variety Kids Water Park (inset B) l i r y R a w o n e a Water Park L l e W e k BROCKTON y FERGUSON P POINT Road (two-way) Restaurants T k a n L o a l r v a e r o POINT r s W k M i a Road (one-way) s l l la i Stanley’s Bar & Grill C rd a v T Walking Path u ra Prospect Point Bar and Grill s A il ew Shared Bike/Walking Path T a l The Teahouse at a e lo y Ov w n v o l i Universal Access Path W kt ai Waterfall Café (seasonal) roc Tr r alk B Pa D Wheelchair Accessible Parking Lees Trail r k B ro Bike/Rollerblade Path (two-way) ckton Po Nine O’Clock Gun a t h int Trail Seawall Walk/Bike/Blade Path r i d l e P Cliffs Golf Course Park Drive B ve l ri HALLELUJAH (note direction of travel a il r a D Field/Lawn Beach d r T n around park) e o POINT h orth La o Forest Garden t N g Forest Trail (soft surface) a R C awl Boardwalk in g s Trail *Trans people welcome HMCS Discovery Lost Lagoon DEADMAN’S ISLAND Rose Garden Map NATURE HOUSE (Closed to the public) DEVONIAN R Getting Here HARBOUR PARK U BO DRIVING From Vancouver, take Georgia Street or R Beach Avenue and follow signs. From the North Shore, Second HA Beach AL take Lions Gate Bridge (Hwy 99) and exit at Park Drive. Park Lagoon Dr. CO Barclay St. Drive is one-way. PAY PARKING Pay parking is in effect in most areas Nelson St. of the park. Buy tickets at pay stations for hourly or W. Georgia St. DOWNTOWN all-day parking. For the totem poles area, The Teahouse, Comox Greenway VANCOUVER Robson St. vancouver.ca/stanleypark Prospect Point and Brockton Point, parking is by-the-hour W. Pender St. only (no day rates available). Beach Ave. Denman St. TRANSIT Public transit services Stanley Park from kilometres 0.2 km 0.5 km 1 km points throughout the Lower Mainland. Several routes miles 1/4 mile 1/2 mile serve the perimeter of the park and the No. 19 stops near the Rose Garden and Malkin Bowl. translink.ca on Second Beach Area (inset A) go Aquarium Area (inset B) La lk TOUR BUSES Several tour bus companies include h Tisdall Wa rt o ve full-service and hop-on/hop-off tours of the park as il ri R awlin g s Tra N D part of their city tours. Shore to Shore by Coast Salish artist WALKING The park is within easy walking distance Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston from downtown and the West End. The Seawall is a Map Lumberman’s y popular walking route. P Arch Picnic Area a Second Beach a Swimming Pool r W k Ceperley Meadow D Lost Lagoon STANLEY n Points of Interest r o i PARK s v TRAIN i Pipeline Road Pipeline Getting Around Pauline Johnson Memorial e v Air Force Garden of Remembrance (inset B) A Air India Memorial (inset A) Port of Vancouver Viewpoint Ceperley WALK, BIKE, OR BLADE The best Field Beaver Lake Portrait Painters (inset B) way to see the park is up-close and on Biofiltration Pond Prospect Point Lighthouse AQUARIUM your own schedule. The Seawall runs counter-clockwise Brockton Point Lighthouse Prospect Point Lookout around the perimeter of the park and several roads, trails Chief of the Undersea World, Bill Reid (inset B) Queen Victoria Memorial (inset B) Second M and paths connect the many points of interest. Bike and STANLEY PARK all PITCH & PUTT y ar Beach d rollerblade rentals are just outside the park on Denman Cob House (inset B) Restoration Donor Monument E STANLEY PARK a Tr PAVILION ail Community Garden Robert Burns Statue (inset B) N Rhododendron W near Georgia Street, and on Davie Street. Second Beach Garden Empress of Japan Figurehead Rock Garden (inset B) G Picnic Area Lag n o o CARRIAGE TOUR Stanley Park Horse-Drawn on Dr i s ve Old Polar Girl in a Wetsuit Statue Rose and Perennial Garden (inset B) L i Tours offers one-hour narrated tours of the park’s Bear Den v l Putting va A O Harry Jerome Statue Salmon Demonstration Stream (inset B) I n eastern side. Buy tickets next to the Information Green to S ck Heron Colony (inset A) Shakespeare Memorial and Garden (inset B) Rose Garden Bro Booth by the Georgia Street entrance. Operating H MALKIN BOWL Hollow Tree Siwash Rock Barclay St. March 1 to November 12 daily, rain or shine. Japanese Canadian War Memorial (inset B) Siwash Rock Viewpoint (Old Searchlight) Painter’s Tennis Courts Circle UNIVERSAL ACCESS Many facilities (English Bay) B Jubilee Fountain (Under Restoration) Stanley Park Pavilion (inset B) r o P c kton P and attractions, including the Stanley STANLEY PARK ar oi k n t l Lord Stanley Statue (inset B) Susan Point’s People Amongst the People, HORSE-DRAWN T r a i Nelson St. TOURS D Park Horse-Drawn Tours, Seawall, Beaver Lake Luke Marston’s Shore to Shore, Robert Yelton’s r Lumberman’s Arch (inset B) i and Ravine Trails, are wheelchair accessible. Yelton Memorial Pole, Totem Poles Comox Greenway v Nine O’Clock Gun e Ted and Mary Greig Rhododendron B The Stanley Park Train has a wheelchair Painters’ Circle (inset B) A Garden (inset A) Park Lane accessible car. Y Park Board Office STANLEY PARK SHUTTLE The Vancouver Trolley Co. offers a Vancouver’s parks, beaches and golf courses narrated hop-on/hop-off tour to 15 stops around the park, June 7 to September 4. are smoke-free kilometres 0.2 km 0.5 km 0.7 km kilometres 0.2 km 0.5 km 0.8 km Stanley Park Pitch & Putt miles 1/4 mile miles 1/4 mile 1/2 mile 5 km PROSPECT POINT OFFICIAL MAP+GUIDE 5.5 km 4.5 km The Seawall Buds and Blooms Stanley Park is consistently ranked No. 1 in the world! And the Stanley Park gardeners have been planting unusual and exotic Welcome! Vancouver’s spectacular 9-km Seawall—the city’s most popular recreation plants, trees and shrubs for years.
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