Hillcrest Park — Attraction in Vancouver

I, personally love soccer (or football/futbol from wherever you might be from).

If you're here to play some baseball with your buddies or a team, or to hang out while letting your children enjoy the water park, this place is for you. But, if you are here to play soccer on turf, you'd be lucky if there is no one on the field. Very lucky at that.

Not to mention, it's a miniature-sized field, so don't be surprised if your soccer ball suddenly clears the fence put in place for the field.

However, there is a pretty big open field to use when all hope is lost for a turf field. The good thing about the open grass field is that there are numerous soccer nets to use. That is, if you are wanting to use the nets.

All in all, I'd say that I generously liked this park. It isn't the greatest for sports-related activities (in my opinion), but it definitely has a lot of potential when it comes to a...

Whether you're looking for a wide range of physical activities and classes offered by the City of Vancouver; a tasty meal or snack; a large multiuse swimming pool; outdoor soccer and baseball fields; a place to run your dog; or a quiet spot to have lunch outdoors, Hillcrest Park delivers. This community center is a definite give of activity ranging from day care programs for Pre-K, to curling to various styles of ballroom dancing, to martial arts, salting lessons and ice hockey league training and play. The facilities are maintained and pay tribute to the former site's use as one of the venues for the 2010 Olympics that were hosted by Vancouver. The multiuse Pol area is substantial and actively supervised by multiple life guards. The cafe is full service boasting everything from hot single serve lunches to sandwiches to treat and fresh...

My daughter played a hockey game at Hillcrest and the ice was fine....cold as heck in the rink as there were no visible heaters for spectators but quality of ice surface was fine. However, in a stupid move by unthinking bureaucrats, they shut down the lobby area of this community centre hours before they shut down the ice surface and kick everyone out of the temperature controlled viewing area in the lobby. They force you to go into the unheated spectator area in the frigid rink! The lobby is not the most thoughtfully designed area to view the ice surface, as there is a piece of wood that bisects the view through huge picture windows that would otherwise make it the perfect place to watch from, but at least it would be nice and warm. Hillcrest, you need a new facilities manager...