Sunken Gardens Park
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Sunken gardens park. The sunken gardens is a beautiful place to visit very near to the cow bay area of prince rupert. Moses in the 1930s. Sunken gardens park and trail in prince rupert british columbia canada is a small two level park with a short pebbled walkway leading through a tunnel into an open area surrounded by brick walls fronting floral gardens.
The sunken garden was originally designed and developed by ray c. It is hidden away in the grounds and behind the rupert courthouse. Menu reservations make reservations.
Don t miss this park in may tulip time very beautiful park with lots of tulip beds a windmill and a pond shaped like a wooden shoe. The area is well manicured and maintained with sitting benches and picnic tables so to enjoy the scenery. We had to enter it through a small tunnel and there is an exit through another tunnel though these tunnels can be avoid by entering from the courthouse grounds.
He had laid out the design relying on his vast knowledge of formal gardens passed on to him by his father george a former gardener at the estates of english nobility who had preceded him as the park superintendent. Sunken gardens park 401 w 9th ave denver co 80204. The garden was designed by noted landscape architect alling stephen deforest 1875 1957.
Sunken gardens park is 0 31 acres and it is one of our park properties used only for passive recreation is located in the lincoln square neighborhood two blocks north of montrose avenue and five blocks west of western avenue. Get directions reviews and information for sunken gardens park in denver co. There are several ways to support sunken gardens including purchasing a paving the path brick or one flower forever.
Gardens may be closed due to inclement weather. Sunken gardens the park incorporates many of the key conventions of late 19th century and early 20th century park design including an informal forested vale which merges into an open symmetrical space which in turn functions visually as a formal manor house garden like setting for denver s west high school. For information on other ways to contribute to the sunken gardens endowment fund call 402 441 8258.