{"id":35,"date":"2010-11-18T16:11:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T00:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2010-11-18T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T00:21:00","slug":"pacific-spirit-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Spirit Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we got a dog and have discovered one of those \u00c2\u00a0incredible hidden gems in our city &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrovancouver.org\/services\/parks_lscr\/regionalparks\/Pages\/PacificSpirit.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Spirit Park<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It has become one of our favourite day date places to go.\u00c2\u00a0 The park is on the west side of Vancouver (UBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PSP2resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-38\" title=\"Pacific Spirit Park\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PSP2resize-120x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>neighbourhood) and is over 54 km of walking\/hiking\/mountain biking trails.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a good idea to grab a map of the various trails so you don&#8217;t get lost when you are inside the park.\u00c2\u00a0 (Remember Hanzel and Gretel?\u00c2\u00a0 They should have\u00c2\u00a0had a map!!)<\/p>\n<p>We love it because it is so tranquil to walk amongst the old growth forest and just relax.\u00c2\u00a0 The trails are soft and it can get quite muddy when it rains so be sure to wear old shoes.\u00c2\u00a0 The smell of the trees is incredible\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.it is like walking in your very own oxygen purifier.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Even if it is raining, the huge trees offer a nice protection from downpours.\u00c2\u00a0 It is honestly very special.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the walk (or before) there are tons of options for lunch, coffee or window shopping \u00c2\u00a0in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointgreyvillage.com\/food_drink.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Point Grey Village<\/a> which is located on West 10th.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a Starbucks (of course!)\u00c2\u00a0at 4582 West 10th and our new favourite place to stop for Chinese food is called <a href=\"www.gingerandchili.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Ginger and Chili<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It is located at\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a04423 West 10th.\u00c2\u00a0 Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we got a dog and have discovered one of those \u00c2\u00a0incredible hidden gems in our city &#8211; Pacific Spirit Park.\u00c2\u00a0 It has become one of our favourite day date places to go.\u00c2\u00a0 The park is on the west side of Vancouver (UBC neighbourhood) and is over 54 km of walking\/hiking\/mountain biking trails.\u00c2\u00a0 It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12,25,1,13],"tags":[31,37,8,35,36,33,34,29,9,30,5,4],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-friendly-dates","category-inexpensive-dates","category-outdoor-dates","category-uncategorized","category-vancouver-area","tag-cheap-date-ideas-vancouver","tag-dog-friendly-date-ideas","tag-fun-activities-in-vancouver","tag-ginger-and-chili-restaurant","tag-outdoor-date-ideas","tag-pacific-spirit-park","tag-point-grey-village","tag-vancouver-date-ideas","tag-vancouver-date-night","tag-vancouver-things-to-do","tag-where-to-go-on-a-date","tag-www-vancouverdatenight-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}