The Variety Kids Water Park in Stanley Park in Vancouver is a large free outdoor spray water park that is a great place for children to have fun and get wet!  It is open during the summer months.  It has lots of different fixtures that shoot water up in the air or on you.  There are no lifeguards so parents need to supervise their children.  There is a large rock structure, called the Fox's Den, that children can go into and crawl on!

June 22, 2020 Update: It was announced today that this water park will reopen on June 27, 2020.

Dates open: June 27, 2020 to September ?

Times open: 10am to 6pm?

This is a great place to take children during the summer to cool off and have some fun.  The Lumbermen's Arch food concession is close by and there are some picnic tables and a large grass area where you can picnic.  There are washrooms nearby also.

Prior to the water park being built in 1987, there was a sea-water filled swimming pool at this location for about 50 years.

Fox's Den - A Project of 99.3 the Fox and Variety Club-May 1972

Row of plaques at the Variety Kids Water Park

"For the Children of British Columbia" - Bryan Adams June 1987

"Let the Children Play" - Loverboy - Mike Reno, Paul Dean, Scott Smith, Matt Frenette, and Doug Johnson - June 1987

Variety Kids Park

Sponsored by Variety Club of British Columbia and CFOX FM99 - LG73

In co-operation with Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation

June 7th, 1987

In appreciation of the generous donation from Chevron Canada Limited

This park was made possible, in part, by a donation from Donato and Evelyn DeCotiis and Family

The Variety Kids Water Park is located just off of the Stanley Park Seawall on the north side of Stanley Park.  It is located right next to Lumbermens' Arch.

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