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If you are planning to visit Vancouver, British Columbia, one of your must-see locations is beautiful Stanley Park. At over 1,000 acres, it is the largest city-owned park in Canada and the third largest in North America.

Stanley Park, nestled right on the edge of downtown Vancouver, attracts an estimated eight million visitors every year, including locals and tourists, who come for its recreational facilities and its natural attributes.

An amazing 8.8 kilometre (5.5 mile) "seawall" path circles the perimeter of the park, which is used by 2.5 million pedestrians, cyclists, and inline skaters every year. The seawall gives you a great view of the Burrard Inlet and Georgia Strait, which are part of the Pacific Ocean.

Much of the park remains forested with an estimated half million trees that can be as tall as 76 metres (250 feet) and hundreds of years old. There are approximately 200 km (125 miles) of trails and roads in the park, which are patrolled by the Vancouver Police Department's mounted squad. Stanley Park as the one of the best parks in both the world and in North America.