Sunnyside Acres Urban Forest

Sunnyside AcresToday we took a walk in a park called Sunnyside Acres Urban Forest in South Surrey, basically in White Rock. It was a really cool park, with nice trails, and a walking itinerary provided for you at the main parking lot. The site was logged early in this century, but has been naturally re-forested, as opposed to being re-planted.

Sunnyside AcresThe trees are quite enormous, and offered a wonderful natural walk through the trails. There are lots of paths that have numbered sign posts on them, and each of the sign posts corresponds to a pamphlet that you can pick up at the entrance. It tells you what might be growing there, and what to look for. It is a very well signed park, and really quite a nice experience.

Pam and MaxPam was quite impressed with the size of the ferns! They have a wonderful vibrant green, quite different from a lot of other ferns growing around the Lower Mainland. The color is a brighter, lighter shade of green. It was quite striking.

Sunnyside AcresAlso pictured here is a trillium! It’s quite late in the year for the trillium to still be in bloom, so we were quite surprised, but pleased to see one! We had been in Tynehead Park the other day and walked up Trillium Trail, but there were none left in bloom. Sunnyside had a Trillium Trail as well, and here was the last bloom of the season! Nice!