Lynn Canyon Park

This guide to Lynn Canyon Park in Vancouver opens with a firefighter's yearly warning beside the Thirty Foot Pool, one of several swimming holes carved into the canyon by a creek that has been at work here for about ten thousand years. It traces the decades of drownings and cliff-jumping accidents North Vancouver's rescue crews have responded to, and the two McTavish brothers who donated the canyon to the district in 1910 hoping it would help sell nearby real estate. You'll hear how engineer C. H. Vogel's suspension bridge, strung across the gorge a year later, let visitors admire the water from a safe distance. Listen for how that same water keeps pulling people past the railing today.