post date ends post title ends post heading ends Lighthouse Park is a popular park in West Vancouver, Canada. Its area is about 75 hectares (185 acres) and it is almost completely covered with rugged, virgin rainforest. What most visitors (and locals) don’t realise is that most of the forests immediately surrounding Vancouver were logged before the 20th century. That is, the very first logging mills set up in Gastown were logging most of Vancouver and the local mountains of Seymour, Cypress and Grouse. Even Stanley Park was completely logged! The forests you now see in these locations are second or third generations post-logging. The trees may be tall, but they weren’t nearly as thick as the original trees that once grew there. However, one of the few places that has never been touched by large-scale logging is Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver. As a result, Lighthouse Park boasts to be one of the few virgin temperate rainforest parks in the area. The forest here is “mature” with all stages of growth present. While you’ll see very young trees and medium-aged trees, you will also come across some of the thickest and oldest trees still growing in the area. At the southermost tip of the peninsula is Point Atkinson with an impressive landmark lighthouse built in 1914 on granite boulders jutting out into Burrard Inlet. 
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