Autumn Photos Around Stanley Park
The autumn colours in Vancouver seem more pronounced this year, either that or the days have just been darker, sooner, and the sunlight bursting through the colourful canopy in the late afternoon has been more welcome than ever. The subsequent rainbows help lift spirits, and there have been fewer wind storms until now, which would help.
Autumn Photos Around Stanley Park
Starting in late September, leaves begin to change through a green, red, orange, and yellow transition that can last through to early November. Sometimes one side of the street (like West Georgia, on the south side before Stanley Park) will turn bright red the second week of October, while the north side doesn’t transition for another two weeks. While some branches are now bare, others are just beginning their fiery flourish.
I’ve been observing this behaviour for a while and I’ll go back to my photo archives to reference when particular trees or corners of the park begin to turn.
Almost every day I get out for a walk, for my health (mental and physical), and to see what’s happening around the city. For years I’ve been taking photos on these walks and sharing them on my social networks but I realized recently, I rarely share them on the blog.
I do sell prints every now and then I’ll get an email asking about that, and I had a photograph in an exhibition at the fabulous Gallery 881 earlier this year. If you are interested, please feel free to get in touch.
The Trees Tell a Story
Throughout the years, the trees in the park tell a story, from old growth to new. I have my favourites over the last twenty years of being a West Ender, some of which came down in wind storms and are now nurse logs, others were cut during forest management like the big maple by the Girl in a Wetsuit statue:
Speaking of changes, I can only imagine what Downtown Vancouver looked like before settlers, with its maple trees in K’emk’emeláy and forest that wasn’t just confined to the borders set today in Stanley Park or Denman Street. While this area is know for its towering Western Red Cedars and Douglas Firs, it has also always been known for maples.
There are over 150,000 street trees in the city of Vancouver, and over 40,000 cherry blossom trees. I took these photos in March 2024 and October 2025 near some condos that in the area that was once the Eihu and Nahanee families’ Kanaka Ranch.
Whether ornamental, native, introduced or even invasive, the plants and trees that show us these gorgeous colours on dark days all tell a story.
If you want to learn more about local nature, I highly recommend taking the Indigenous-led Talaysay Tours Talking Trees Tour in Stanley Park. They run almost every day until December 12th.
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