{"id":525809,"date":"2026-03-10T02:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525809\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T02:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:10:08","slug":"zipline-tree-canopy-walk-proposed-for-queen-elizabeth-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525809\/","title":{"rendered":"Zipline, tree canopy walk proposed for Queen Elizabeth Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation is set to decide on Monday to install a new attraction in the city\u2019s Queen Elizabeth Park.<\/p>\n<p>Two attractions are in the run: a zipline and a tree canopy walk.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners say that the board is exploring new revenue options with the hope that either of the attractions would serve this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>If the board approved the Zipline proposal, it would turn the clock back to 2015 when the park last featured an aerial runway.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to install the cable near the duck pond in the park.<\/p>\n<p>The location would allow for a downhill run from the north, giving zipliners a view of the city\u2019s skyline and the North Shore mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The other proposal, a tree canopy walk, would build platforms and suspension bridges between about mature trees in the arboretum.<\/p>\n<p>This idea is being pitched by the operators of the Greenheart Tree Walk at the UBC Botanical Garden.<\/p>\n<p>The board\u2019s meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., and the proposals are the first point of tonight\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation is set to decide on Monday to install a new attraction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-525809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}