Hillcrest Park, Community park in British Columbia, Canada
Hillcrest Park is a green space featuring walking paths, open lawns, and landscaped areas designed for recreation and community use. The site includes maintained trails, rest areas, and picnic zones throughout the grounds.
Hillcrest Park's curling arena was built for the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. Construction began in March 2007 and was largely finished by February 2009, with the aquatics wing completed in spring 2009. The site lies about four kilometres from the Olympic Village and was served by public transit during the Games.
Hillcrest Park is home to the Vancouver Curling Club, which had only five sheets in a small building at the park's southwest corner before moving into the Hillcrest Centre. Little Mountain Baseball has its ballpark and clubhouse here, and during soccer season the diamonds are converted into soccer fields.
The park sits in Riley Park-Little Mountain, immediately north of Queen Elizabeth Park and west of Riley Park, with Nat Bailey Stadium and the Millennium Sports Centre next door. The Hillcrest Centre, opened for the 2010 Winter Olympics, holds the curling arena, ice rink, library and Percy Norman Aquatic Centre. Organisers noted the park lies four kilometres from the Olympic Village and is easy to reach by public transport.
The curling arena built for the 2010 Winter Olympics sits about four kilometres from the Olympic Village and hosted the curling competitions of both the 2010 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics. After the Games it became a multi-purpose ice facility with six to eight curling sheets, an ice hockey rink, a gymnasium and a library.
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