Forest science, mountain landscapes and local history. Find another reason to get outside.
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People and places
Elmer Gunderson helped make the park’s paths. Years later, he gave walkers another reason to stop along them: faces, creatures and small surprises carved into the cottonwoods.
3 min readLocal history
A grand house once stood above the meadow. Its remaining stonework leads into the story of Ben Ginter, a construction fortune, an unlikely brewery and the landscape Prince George inherited.
4 min readClose to home
Cross the river and the familiar city rearranges itself. A walk along the forested bluffs reveals the bowl, the bridges and the long history written into the riverbanks.
3 min readLocal stories
A network of familiar trailheads hides an ambitious idea: keep enough forest connected that an ordinary walk can become a much larger journey.
4 min readCity history
Follow a curved street, a park-centred plan and a few remarkable houses into the ambitions behind Prince George’s original railway townsite.
4 min readCity history
A hundred-dollar lot, a newspaper feud and three competing visions of the future explain why the city’s beginning was anything but inevitable.
4 min read
