VanDusen Botanical Garden
VanDusen Botanical Garden is a botanical garden in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the Shaughnessy neighborhood. It is located at the northwest corner of 37th Avenue and Oak Street. It is named for local lumberman and philanthropist Whitford Julian VanDusen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours:
January and December: 10:00 AM—3:00 PM
February and November: 10:00 AM—4:00 PM
March and October: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
April: Saturday—Sunday 10:00 AM—7:00 PM
May: Saturday—Sunday 9:00 AM—8:00 PM
June—August: 9:00 AM—8:30 PM
September: 10:00 AM—6:00 PM
December 25th: closed - Type: Garden
- Description: botanical garden in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
- Also known as: “Van Dusen Botanical Garden”
- Address: 5251 Oak Street, Vancouver
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vancouver College and QE Park.
Vancouver College
School
Photo: Iota 9, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vancouver College is an independent K-12 university-preparatory Catholic school for boys located in the Shaughnessy neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
QE Park
Park
Photo: Craig Nagy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Queen Elizabeth Park is a 130-acre municipal park located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located on top of Little Mountain approximately 125 metres above sea level and is the location of former basalt quarries dug in the beginning of the twentieth century to provide materials for roads in the city.
British Columbia Children’s Hospital
Hospital building
British Columbia Children's Hospital is a medical facility located in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oakridge and South Cambie.
Oakridge
Suburb
Oakridge is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with a multicultural residential and commercial area. It had a population of 13,030 in 2016, of which approximately 50 percent have Chinese as their mother tongue.
South Cambie
Suburb
South Cambie is a neighbourhood in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that is generally considered one of the smallest neighbourhoods in the city, both in size and in population.
Shaughnessy
Suburb
Shaughnessy is an almost-entirely residential neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, spanning about 447 hectares in a relatively central locale.
VanDusen Botanical Garden
- Categories: botanical garden and recreation area
- Location: Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.2395° or 49° 14′ 22″ northLongitude
-123.1329° or 123° 7′ 58″ westElevation
94 metres (308 feet)Open location code
84XR6VQ8+QROpenStreetMap ID
way 316008597OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=gardenOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesGeoNames ID
11836208Wikidata ID
Q1119013
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“VanDusen Botanical Garden” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “范度森植物園”
- Dutch: “Beelden in de VanDusen Botanical Garden”
- Dutch: “Van Dusen Botanical Garden”
- German: “Van Dusen Botanical Garden”
- German: “VanDusen Botanical Garden”
- Russian: “Ботанический сад Ван Дусена”
- Serbian: “Вандусенова ботаничка башта”
- Ukrainian: “Ботанічний сад Ван Дусена”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include mountain ashes and Great Lawn.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “VanDusen Botanical Garden”. Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0.