Parks
Gordon Head has 27 parks ranging in size from the minuscule Balmacarra Park (671 square metres) to the magnificent Mount Douglas Park (181 hectares), the largest park in Saanich.
Several parks offer beach access. The half-rocky, half-sandy beach located between Arbutus Cove Park and Hollydene Park is Gordon Head's most frequented beach.
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“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)