1000 Things To-Do

Welcome to our newest feature of OneThousandThingsTodo.com, our Monday City Spotlight! Each Monday we will be highlighting different categories of activities in one of the cities covered by OneThousandthingsToDo.com. You’ll read about hiking in Coeur d’Alene, picnicking in Tacoma, date nights in Bend and so much more. We hope this helps you find more things to do in your city! Now onto this week’s City Spotlight:

Vancouver has some of the nicest parks in the country and our writers have explored many of them for you. If you are looking for a fun place to get your kids to burn some energy or a place for a romantic picnic to watch the sunset, you’ll definitely have to read the many articles at Vancouver.OneThousandThingsToDo.com.

From well equipped picnic areas, walking trails, dog parks and educational centers, you’ll find just about any type of park you are looking for within the area surrounding Vancouver Washington. Check some of these out:

• Marine Park - South of SR14 Exit 1, on Columbia Way and SE Marine Park Way. The park has a nice mix of sun and shade, trees and bright green grass, a baseball field, playground, restrooms, and water to a small group of picnic tables, including a covered area. There is also a boat ramp at the far western portion of the park, but it is a fair walk from where we parked the car so we did not visit it.
• Discover the Labyrinth at Hazel Dell - First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1220 NE 68th St - The trees are fully grown and woodsy, but the area is still garden-like. There are tall fir, cedar, and maple trees, an ivy-covered bank, and on the other hand there are tidy privets, lilacs, rhodies, lavender, and azaleas.
• Fort Vancouver Heritage Gardens -The garden at Fort Vancouver is a heritage garden, meaning that it contains plants that we would have seen here when the fort was in operation in 1845. Notice the arch over the entrance to the garden and the snowball bushes on either side of it.

These are just a few of the great parks you’ll find in and around Vancouver. Get out and check them out today! And don’t forget to come back here to leave your comments, we’d love to hear how your trip was.