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Travel In-Town: Surrey's Picturesque Parks

Here are the most popular parks in Surrey (Map), From North to South (see other area parks):

Bear Creek Park
(88th Avenue & King George Hwy)
This park is popular with a wide range of locals. For families it has picnic facilities, washrooms, a playground, a water playground, a youth park, and the Bear Creek Minature Train. For more athletic types, it has an outdoor pool, trails, a fitness circuit, a grass soccer field, a football field. The park is also home to the Centennial Arts Centre.

Green Timbers Forest Reserve
(100th Avenue & 148th Street)
This 400 hectare park is the largest park land in Surrey. Even thought he park is intersected by the Fraser highway (1A) and 96 Avenue, the expanse of green space returns sanity to city living. Its forest lands are connected with a network of trails and a boardwalk, including around Green Timbers Lake. The park is also the trail head for the Green Timbers/Tynehead Multi-Use Pathway.

Fleetwood Park
(154th Street & 80th Avenue)
This Park, which adjoins the Fleetwood Park High School is a popular recreational destination for the ear. Fleetwood attracts families with its picnic facilities, water playground, playground and blacktop play areas. For recreational users there are ball diamonds, and all-weather soccer field, a grass soccer field, trails, and tennis courts.

Tynehead Regional Park
(168th Street & 96th Avenue)
Tynehead's 260 hectares of rolling meadow and forest are easily accessible to residents of North Surrey. Forests contain a mix the deciduous trees and shrubs, including some orchard trees, with pockets of conifers. Scenic trails meander through the park, some winding along the Serpentine River. The headwaters are located in the Serpentine Hollow picnic area, and provide spawning habitat for salmon and trout, which began their lives at the Tynehead Hatchery, at the southern edge park’s boundary alongside the Serpentine River.

Newton Athletic Park
(74th Avenue & 128th Street)
This park is the athletic focal point of Newton. There is a playground, an outdoor games court, fitness circuit, tennis courts, ball diamonds, an all-weather soccer field, grass soccer field, and a football / rugby field. Pretty well something for everyone

Cloverdale Athletic Park
(64th Avenue & 168th Street)
This park is the athletic focal point of Cloverdale. The park has tennis courts, ball diamonds, an all-weather soccer field, a grass soccer field, a football field, and a practice field. For families, the park also has a playground, a picnic shelter, and a water spray park.

Blackie Spit and Crescent Beach
(McBride Avenue & Wickson Road)
These two parks are the beach worshippers heaven in Surrey, lying on Boundary Bay. For the active beach-goer, there are tennis courts, picnic areas, bird watching, nature trails, and community gardens. There is even a pier into the Bay for fishing and just enjoying the view.

Crescent Park
(26th Avenue & 132nd Street)
This park is the inland focal point of Crescent Beach. The park has something for everyone including: picnic facilities, a playground, walking trails, a fitness circuit, tennis courts, ball diamonds, a grass soccer field, a football / rugby field, and bridle trails.

South Surrey Athletic Park
(20th Avenue & 148th Street)
The park has extensive recreational facilities including: a rugby field, football field, softball and baseball diamonds, soccer fields, a skateboard park, tennis courts, and nature trails. It is also home to the South Surrey Arena, South Surrey Community Recreation Centre, and the South Surrey Youth Centre .

White Rock’s West Beach
(Marine Drive, White Rock)
This is BC’s best beach! There are wide beige sand flats when the tide goes out, and is a popular place for building sand castles. The beach faces South, giving it daylong sun for working on that tan (but PLEASE use sunscreen!).

Redwood Park
(20th Avenue & 179th Street, near US Border)
This 32-hectare Surrey park is rich in exotic trees grown from seedlings from around the world. The park was started in 1893 by twin brothers, Peter and David Brown, on land given to them by their father on their 21st birthdays. They replanted the clear-cut hilltop, and even built themselves a treehouse.

Peace Arch Provincial Park
("0" Avenue & 168th Street, on the US Border)
This park is famous for its Peace Arch monument to peace along the "longest undefended border in the world" between Canada and the USA.

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