Despite a post-pandemic decline in visits in 2022, Crippen Regional Park, Delta South-Surrey Regional Greenway and Seymour River Regional Greenway set records for total annual visits.
Metro Vancouver parks saw an estimated 14.3 million visits in 2022, marking a 13 per cent decline from 2020 and 2021, when over 16 million trips were counted in each year, according to the regional government’s annual parks report.
And, the report highlighted three parks that experienced a record number of visits: Crippen Regional Park on Bowen Island, with about 355,000 visits; Delta South-Surrey Regional Greenway, with about 96,000 visits; and Seymour River Regional Greenway, with about 43,000 visits.The most popular park, by a long shot, is Pacific Spirit Regional Park, located between the University of British Columbia and Vancouver. The park saw an estimated 3.6 million visits in 2022, down six per cent from 2021.
North Vancouver’s Capilano River Regional Park came close to one million visits with an estimated 992,000 visits. Other popular parks include Surrey’s Campbell Valley Regional Park and Derby Reach Regional Park .
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