Hastings Park

Hastings Park is a 62-hectare municipal park in Vancouver's northeast Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood, established in 1888. Its grounds carry a sobering wartime history: in spring 1942, more than 8,000 Japanese Canadians were forcibly held here as a temporary internment site before being relocated to camps in the BC interior — a chapter now marked by a memorial on the grounds. Today the park operates as a multi-use recreation hub: Hastings Racecourse hosts seasonal thoroughbred racing, Playland amusement park draws families with its wooden roller coaster and carnival rides, and the Pacific National Exhibition takes over the southern fairgrounds each August. The park is open daily from 6 am to 10 pm.