Burnt Bridge Creek Trail — Attraction in Vancouver

Not a place to bring young children for sure. After you had is past the open space, you need to be very diligent and on the lookout for the homeless encampments. I counted 50 that I could see. The woods cover up most of them. The overhead Google map even the current line from 2024 is deceiving. You can’t really see the tents because they’re underneath all the trees.

The further on you go, the more dense encampments are. We ran onto several people that were either disoriented or inebriated with some thing. Screaming chanting maybe delusional I don’t know. I suspect these encampments are a little safer being away from residential housing. But that sad ran across a couple bicycle businesses that were in full swing. One gentleman seem to have at least 200 bicycles with some customers bargaining to get a good decent bike. Closer to the Andreson intersection. Electric bikes might be the way to go so you can zoom pass this area quickly.

Would not walk through here with children or the elderly. Suggestion is to bring a big long Walkingstick for safety. It’s starting to be a shame that we can’t utilize our walking areas and even some of the city parks like leverage park.

That’s another park that is being ignored by the city in even the ones nice covered area is dilapidated without any water or electricity. Not a safe place to rent. Actually, I don’t think you can rent that facility anymore. They just took that off the books....

So me and my mom we're trying to find the gnome trail in Vancouver. When you look up "Gnome trail Vancouver WA", it gives you this trail. Me and my mom went to this one and we had an interesting experience to say the least.

We went on the trail and on this one if you go all the way down, it eventually ends with a bunch of tents that homeless live in. Someone who lives there told us to turn around and it maybe on the other side of the road. So if you cross the road, there's a trail with a bunch of signs with graffiti. I told my mom to stay on the trail while I check this trail that goes off behind this bush. I went to check to see if the gnome trail was there, but I didn't see anything. The thing that scared me was there was this humming that almost sounded like a chant. I stood there to try to hear what they're saying but I couldn't. I went to check on my mom and she said she could hear the humming where she was too.

We walked down a little bit and I want to say eventually 2 minutes later the humming stopped and everything, even the birds went silent. Me and my mom walked down a little more to see if there was the gnome trail and nothing. We went back and got to our car safe. We have someone who experienced something similar with this trail.

If anyone's trying to find the gnome trail, find this trail instead: Greenway Stewart Glen Trailhead. If you go down that trail for about 25-30minutes, you'll find it. It's...

It's a beautiful trail. Some of the homeless population has made parts of the trail their home. Thats just fine with me. In fact, i visit many of them often and try to help them in anyway that i can when i have the time. Most of them are wonderful people who, for one reason or another, have found themselves in this unfortunate living situation

The city keeps making them move their entire camp every couple months or so. What an absolute pain that must be! I can't imagine!

City of Vancouver, PLEASE, stop harassing our homeless population by making them move their homes so frequently and by taking (stealing!) their possessions if they wont move OR have aquired more posessions than what the city has decided is allowed. I don't remember voting on that law. Maybe we should. Maybe we should also elect city counsel members and a mayor that have empathy for our homeless population!

These people are struggling enough already without the constant harassment from the city of Vancouver and the Vancouver police department. They send their people into the trails, backed up with law enforcement officers from the V.P.D., to hand out notices to the homeless stating that they need to leave. They do it over and...