Columbia Park
Columbia Park’s playground and wading pool are popular in the summer, and the large open fields are used by many people in the neighbourhood. This peaceful park is pleasant for a relaxing stroll in all seasons.
One can easily see a time in the none-too distant future where Columbia Park becomes an incredibly busy green space.
A block to the east of Oakridge Centre (currently being redeveloped to allow for more condos, as is the fashion of the time), Columbia is a lovely mid-sized park that isn’t too big as to seem cavernous, but isn’t too small to be cramped if there are sports games happening on the oft-used baseball and soccer fields.
A 90s playground with plenty of slides and tunnels and bridges is solid for most (albeit on a frustratingly raised sandy surface), and there’s good use of trees and slopes to separate the different parts of the park.
Unfortunately, the field house was destroyed last decade, and a separate set of slides was also removed. And the large pentagon-shaped wading pool is closed most of the year — like most wading pools in Vancouver, they’re now seen as an inefficient use of space, and the park board is slowly converting them to spray parks — which also docks points of Columbia’s score.
An upgrade is needed. But what’s here is plenty good for the moment.
(info from vancouverparkguide)
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