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Walk around Lost Lagoon at Stanley Park
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As you enter Stanley Park from Georgia Street, Lost Lagoon is the beautiful body
of water to the west of the causeway |
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In the past, the incoming high tide water from Coal
Harbour would flow onto the
tidal flat and fill-up the Lagoon almost reaching to
English Bay then at low
tide the ocean water would slip away. Construction of the Stanley Park causeway
in the 1920s has left Lost Lagoon as a freshwater pond. The northeast side of
the Lagoon acts as a bio-filtration marsh filtering causeway run-off through a
series of holding ponds.
A walk around Lost Lagoon is only 1.79 km (1.2 miles or approx. 3,544 steps) and
will take about 30 minutes. Though it is a relatively short walk there is much
to discover. In 1936, the City of Vancouver's had its Golden Jubilee (50th
Birthday). A fountain was created to mark the civic celebration and was placed
in the middle of the Lagoon. The fountain was revitalized in 1986 for the City's
Centennial, and is clearly seen from any vantage point around the pond.
This urban gem is also a bird sanctuary; home to herons, swans, and several
species of ducks. Those interested by flora and fauna as well as natural and
social history, will want to stop by the Lost Lagoon Nature House. On the
southeast bank of Lost Lagoon, the Stanley Park Ecology Society operates from
this former boathouse and offers special sessions on plant identification and
natural history tours.
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