Hinge Park, Wetland park in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, Canada

Hinge Park is a 2.3-acre naturalized wetland park at the northwest corner of 1st Avenue and Columbia Street in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver. It connects to the 1.5-acre Habitat Island, built from leftover excavation soil, rocks and sand. The park has a shoreline trail along False Creek, a children's play area with jungle ropes and a climbing wall, a small hill with a slide, a bridge made from sewer pipe, and a water pump with metal runnels.

The site was a City Works Yard built in the 1920s, with an incinerator where residents burned unsorted waste, leaving the soil highly contaminated. Some proposed turning it into an infrastructure theme park. It became an amenity for the 2010 Winter Olympics athletes, designed to reference its industrial past, hence the sewer-pipe bridge.

The park's name comes from the bend where Cambie Street meets West 2nd Avenue, a hinge in Vancouver's street grid. Since April 2013 a pair of beavers has lived in the stormwater-fed wetland; they built a lodge in January 2015 and by July 2016 up to three kits were seen with them. Trees are wrapped in wire mesh to limit the damage, and the family is not relocated.

Hinge Park sits at the northwest corner of 1st Avenue and Columbia Street in Mount Pleasant. Entrances open from Athletes Way, Walter Hardwick Avenue and the False Creek shoreline trails; a separate path leads north to Habitat Island. There are no washrooms or food services in the park, but both are available at Olympic Village Square one block west. It is about a 10-minute walk from Olympic Village or Main Street-Science World stations.

A pair of beavers was first spotted in the stormwater-fed wetland in April 2013, and since building a lodge in January 2015 they have become local social-media favourites; up to three kits were seen with them from July 2016. Trees are wrapped in wire mesh to limit the damage the animals cause.