Stanley Park
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Key facts
- Type
- Urban park
- Location
- Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada
- Area
- 404.9 hectares (4.049 km ; 1,001 acres; 1.563 sq mi)
- Operator
- Vancouver Park Board
- Visitors
- approximately</span>"}]]}'>approx. 8 million annually
- Website
- vancouver .ca /parks-recreation-culture /stanley-park .aspx
- Official name
- Stanley Park National Historic Site of Canada
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Map showing the location of the park within the city
Stanley Park is a 405-hectare (1,001-acre) 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 The park borders the neighbourhoods of West End and Coal Harbour to its southeast, and is connected to the North Shore via the Lions Gate Bridge. The historic lighthouse on Brockton Point marks the park's easternmost point. While it is not the largest urban park, Stanley Park is about one-fifth larger than New York City's 340-hectare (840-acre) Central Park and almost half the size of London's 960-hectare (2,360-acre) Richmond Park.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stanley Park” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.