Sunset Beach
Grassy waterfront park on English Bay with a seawall path leading toward an art deco bridge.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sunset Beach in Vancouver begins on a stormy night in November 2021, when something the size of a small apartment block washed up on the grass: a sixty-one-metre barge torn loose in coastal flooding. It follows how the city, already home to a park nicknamed Dude Chilling Park, reacted to a rusting hull on its sand, and what the cleanup ended up costing. Listen while walking the seawall curving toward the Burrard Bridge, where the barge once sat.
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