Name: Cuthbert Holmes, Knockan Hill, and Colquitz Creek Loop
Start: 2024-12-08T13:30:00-08:00
End: 2024-12-08T15:30:00-08:00

Judy and Graham are leading this 2 hour walk. We will meet just outside Montana’s Restaurant at Tillicum Mall, between 1:15 and 1:30, pick up the trail that heads into Cuthbert Holmes Park, home to 120 species of birds. We leave Cuthbert Holmes to take the footbridge over the new Mackenzie Interchange and join the Galloping Goose Trail where we will enjoy views of Portage Inlet. We remain on the Galloping Goose for 15 minutes until we reach Welland Legacy Park and Community Orchard. [Welland Community Orchard](https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/welland-community-orchard/) After admiring the remarkably well-trained apple trees, and peering at the bee hotels [Bee Hotel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_hotel), we cross Burnside, and enter Knockan Hill Park. Home of meadows full of Blue Camas in the spring, but not now unfortunately. [Blue Camas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camassia) .Pausing at the summit to admire the great views, we leave by the little used north east exit. We then descend a secret stairway, cover a couple of urban blocks, then stroll through the quiet backroads of the Strawberry Vale district, until we reach the Colquitz River Linear Park. We can note the condition of the Coldquitz, some 18 years after the Habitat Acquisition Trust launched its cleanup project [Coldquitz Creek Cleanup](https://www.crd.bc.ca/docs/default-source/es-watersheds-pdf/colquitz-river-enhancement-project-2006.pdf?sfvrsn=f5a295c9_0)) . For those interested in architecture, there are some good examples of the 1960's Brutalist Style [Brutalist Architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture) in the Stepping Stone Bridge, the Canadian Centenary Concrete mosaic plates, and retaining walls towards the end of the trail. Finally we emerge at the back of Montana’s around 3:30 pm. where I hope folks will join us for refreshments. Bathrooms: Plan on there being one only at the start and finish, in Tillicum Mall alongside London Drugs. There was a washroom in Welland Orchard park last June when we were there, but don't count on it being open this time of year.

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