- To experience a really unique attraction
close to the city,
visit the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park.
I'm Chris, this is the Traveling Princess.
This park is in Vancouver, Canada.
We're going to show you around the crown jewel of this park.
is this suspension bridge.
You might be wondering, Chris,
Why are you wearing your mask when you're outside?
Well, this bridge is two way traffic and so
you have to wear your mask on this bridge,
even though it's outdoors during the pandemic.
But this is a really neat place to come be in the mountains.
It smells like Christmas trees,
and is really adventuresome, which she really likes.
Let's show you around the park.
So in addition to the sway of this bridge, making it spooky,
when a lot of people get on here, it is quite high up.
You can see that stream down below.
And if it's kind of a cloudy day,
it feels very mystical here with these low hanging clouds.
And even though this is a theme park,
and so you know it's manufactured,
it does seem very natural because you hear birds chirping.
There's a waterfall coming off the cliff.
And so I think this is a great way to experience nature,
but still be close to the city center.
Pro tip. This park can get really busy.
If you want the bridge all to yourself,
to get some of the best selfies,
try to get here as early as possible.
The park opens at 9:00 AM.
Least people are here at park opening time.
And as soon as you cross that bridge,
if you find yourself hungry,
there's a little snack shop selling
coffees and beaver balls.
What's a beaver ball?
They are miniature pancakes cooked
on this little miniature pancake machine.
You can get all Canadian with maple syrup,
beaver whip with caramel, rocky road with chocolate.
Okay, I think we're gonna pass
on those beaver balls right now,
but let's go ahead and check out
the boardwalk right next to that cabin.
So now if you read the Trip Advisor views of this place,
people either love or hate it.
The people that hate it seem to hate
the long line at the suspension bridge.
Well, that won't happen to you because you're
gonna come here early.
And some people all seem to hate it because they came to
look for like real hiking and to be here long time.
This is like a couple hour visit at most.
And the hiking here, it's not real hiking.
It's manufactured hiking like this boardwalk,
but if you want to visit nature
without really being in nature,
this is a good place for you.
Again, particularly if you have kids
'cause kids have a hard time
when it's muddy and when it's slippery.
But with our Traveling Princess,
she can explore here and we don't have to worry
because everything is made to be really safe for her.
And just above the boardwalk,
and by above, I literally mean above
The boardwalk was down there. - No.
- Is this tree top walk.
What's there?
What do we see at the tree top walk?
This reminds me of like the tree house at Disneyland.
Just ten times better.
Yes, I said something is better than Disneyland.
This is truly amazing.
The sign said "attention extreme nature ahead".
I mean, I don't know if the nature is all that extreme,
but this is really pretty cool.
Now, overall, they've done a really good job
of putting neat little things like this in nature.
What is this?
I don't know. It's a little thing to stand on top of a log.
Is this tree log even real?
I don't know about that either, but take a look over there.
There's a cabin that says they've gone fishing
and look even farther.
There's a rainbow colored waterfall.
Are waterfalls ever rainbow colored?
Probably not, but that's pretty cool.
And look over there.
There's Ranger and he's looking for banana slugs.
Do you see any banana slugs? Huh?
And along that nature's edge boardwalk we were on earlier,
they've got some neat lights set up along the lake
where you can see these lights reflecting in the water.
Now, if you're wondering if all these
blinky lights are here year round, nope.
They're just here for the holidays.
You can see there's a couple guys here,
and there's actually someone wearing a yellow jacket
in this tree putting up these lights.
He is really high up.
Those are couple brave Christmas light decorating dudes.
If you're hungry here, you've got two options.
The Loggers Grill is right outside
in front of the gift shop.
They've got burgers, fries, miniature donuts,
but they've also got poutine gravy fries.
For just a couple more bucks,
you can add gravy and cheese curds to your
french fries.
Look at that, gravy on fries.
(kid screaming)
Pretty good.
Now what on earth might you buy
at a gift shop at a suspension bridge?
Well, the Traveling Princess brought back a Canadian moose.
You can also get some salmon jerky.
One of these is pepper flavored by the way.
There's a restaurant in the back.
If you want to eat inside,
sit down table service costs you more.
And there's one final attraction here,
just below the gift shop; the cliff walk.
This is maybe, I don't know if I would say
this is even scarier than the other one.
It doesn't sway, so that's good.
But you can see further down the
cliffs down here, and I have to hold the Traveling Princess
below the railings,
but take a look down there. It's pretty deep.
And they even light up the water.
There's some blue lights on it
to make it look even more magical.
And if you're looking to take a picture
of the suspension bridge that you
probably walked on earlier, I think one of the best spots
is right here from the cliff walk.
For those of you who watch "Yellow Productions" regularly
you'll know I have a lot of videos on Japan
and we love to go to Onsen towns,
which are Japanese hot spring towns.
And walking around here really feels like
an attraction in a Japanese hot spring town
'cause in Japan they often do things this way.
Trying to make it easy to visit nature
and just the general kind of relaxing feel of it.
The city melts away.
And there's the bubbling water and the decorations.
A really cool place.
But the real question that I'm sure you're asking is
Chris, that's all really cool,
but was it worth 55 Canadian dollars to go in?
OC girl, I, and the Traveling Princess definitely think so.
We live in Southern California.
We don't have trees like this.
We don't have nature like this.
We really enjoyed it.
If you're in nature like this all the time to go hiking
and you're an expeditioner, then probably not.
But if you're like us and you're some city slickers
that wants to see some trees in a couple hours,
then I think you'll enjoy it.
Well, if you're planning a trip to Vancouver,
you might enjoy checking out some more
of our Vancouver series.
You'll find links here on the screen
or in the description below.
As usual, I won't say goodbye
'cause I'll see you in the next video.