Vancouver Lake Regional Park in Vancouver, Washington, is a pleasant place for some family-time outdoors. It is not exactly one of those touristy places; more like a place where the locals like to hang out on a sunny day.
Vancouver Lake Regional Park
Lying in west of Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver Lake Regional Park seemed to be this quiet place just outside town. But then again, it is not without things-to-do there. The almost 200-acre park has picnic tables and grills and facilities for a game of Beach Volleyball. There’s sand for kids to play in and ample open lawn-space for them to run around. There are even a couple of trails here at this park.
Let me take you on a short photo trip of this park beside Vancouver Lake:
Vancouver Lake
The biggest attraction here must be lake itself on whose bank the park lies. Vancouver Lake Regional Park lies just beside the Vancouver lake and is fortunate to have a bit of its sandy beach too.
The park on ‘this’ bank and Downtown Vancouver on the other.
One of the trails at Vancouver Lake Regional Park, Vancouver, WA.
Volcano Spotting
For me, one of the best things about the park was spotting Mt. St. Helens, one of the volcanoes of the Cascade Range.
Vancouver like other parts of the Pacific Northwest get a lot of rain. So I guess it was only because it was a clear day that I got to see Mt. St. Helens. I hear that Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams are also visible from Vancouver Lake Regional Park on good days. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to see the latter-mentioned volcanic mountains.
If you’d like a peek at these volcanic mountains, see :
Mt. Hood
Volcanic Sites
Do you see Mt. St. Helens?
Zoomed in: Mt. St. Helens.
Linking to the meme:
Also from the Pacific Northwest —
Mt. Rainier National Park
Columbia River Gorge
Astoria
Space Needle
Tillamook Cheese Factory
Oldest Starbucks store
(Wooden Shoe) Tulip Festival
Such a lovely spot.
It is. I wish I spotted the other two volcanoes too, that are said to be visible from here.
Thank you for the visit, Lady Fi. 🙂
Loved your photos. These were taken in the summer right?
Thank you, Kalpana.
Yeah, these pictures are from a summer day. At this time of the year these areas get too many rainy days.
Wonderful place to spend a day or more!
Indeed. 🙂
Beautiful place. Lot of free space for the people to relax.
It is lovely for day outside. 🙂
Amazing shots.
Thank you, Jyotirmoy.
What a beautiful place to visit . Grand pictures as well D.Nambiar .
It is. I loved the sight of the mountain, most of all. 🙂
Thank you, Yogi. 🙂
Lovely area
It sure is. 🙂
Welcome here, PhotoGeographer. 🙂
This is a perfect spot for kids to run around and play in the outdoors! Absolutely loved your captures, they are postcard perfect! 🙂
It is. And because those parts have very few sunny days a year, a day like this is taken very seriously and an outoor-day, I’m sure. 🙂
Thanks guys. 🙂
Beautiful pictures. Thanks for the photo trip dear 🙂
Thank you so much, Purba. I hope you are having a lovely week. 🙂
on my wishlist…
The Pacific Northwest is so beautiful. You must see it.
I love such places – low on tourists and high on beauty and serenity. When I read Vancouver, I thought Canada. Washington is a beautiful state, full of natural beauty. Rain is a only problem, though.
It is a lovely little corner of the US, really. If you were to stay there for a bit, you could get tired of the rains. But then again, I guess it is the rains that keeps the Pacific Northwest so green and clean.
Vancouver, WA is often mistaken for the more famous Vancouver, BC. 😉