Sapperton Landing Park

I have mixed feelings about giving the masses instructions on how to get into the secluded park. Just read this, but don’t come to the park! Getting to this oasis is a bitch.
Sapperton Landing is only accessible by vehicle if you’re traveling east on East Columbia through a ramp down exit. The park’s entrance is located at the intersection of East Columbia and Cumberland, but you can’t enter the park by vehicle via Cumberland. The closest intersection to drive into the park is Richmond Street and East Columbia Street.
By foot, you can easily get into the park off of East Columbia and Cumberland. It’s a ten minute walk from the Sapperton SkyTrain Station, but be careful that you don’t get ran over on Columbia by the many souls rat running through New West to avoid the Port Mann tolls.
As far as picking blackberries as mentioned in the previous review, I wouldn’t do it. The Metro Vancouver employees are constantly spraying herbicide.

Beautiful park, but as mentioned by the other reviewer, the park abruptly ends near a random industrial marine business.
People fish off the side of the wharfs, and apparently they get some good catches (coho salmon, anyone?). We’ll be testing out this fishing spot come Sept/​Oct. For now (August), it is blackberry picking time, which is plentiful down at the park!

This park, located at the foot of Cumberland Street, is a pretty place to walk along the Fraser River and to wave at the frequent trains that go by. It also has a bit of dark history — the fishing pier and old house near the entrance were formerly where prisoners were brought in via the river to the old BC Pen across Columbia Street.
But even if you know that, it’s still a peaceful park to visit. Even on a sunny day, very few venture across the railway tracks to visit, so every time I come here, I’ve got the place practically to myself. The path is nicely landscaped and has a number of wooden bridges that make good stopping points to enjoy the view of the Fraser River in all it’s working glory — tugboats, seabirds, log booms — with the mighty Golden Ears and Mt Baker in the distance.
The only real problem is that, as of yet, the path abruptly ends at Front Street. Narrow and travelled heavily by freight trucks, it’s not safe to walk further along the road. So, you must either turn back along the path, or walk along the paved trail that runs alongside the railroad tracks back to the beginning. This can be fun if there’s a train going through, especially one of the Rocky Mountaineer trains, full of people who like to wave hello to me and my cute dog.
Someday, I really hope that this park will be part of a much longer waterfront trail. That would be awesome.