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Central Park has a few invasive plant species that the city is working to remove. These plans were implemented in 2011 along the 2.5 kilometer trail as known as Trail of Hope and is primarily run by volunteers even to this day. Some of these invasive plant species that populate Central Park
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There is an outdoor pool on the west side of the park, slated to be converted for indoor use in 2023. The fitness circuit, tennis courts, and golf course are located on the southeast side, while the baseball diamond, lawn bowling facility, and horseshoe pitch sit on the northeast side. The Earl and
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Trail circles around the upper pond and just reaches the lower pond. Visitors often use this trail for physical activity purposes and it is annually used for the Terry Fox Run for the City of
Burnaby. The 2.6-kilometre (1.6 mi) Trail of Hope also circles around the upper pond and reaches the
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Central Park's lagoon. Because of the invasive and aggressive nature of the snakehead, scientists were called in, the lagoon was drained, and the fish was captured. There is no evidence it reproduced or spread its range, and so the snakehead had not spread to British Columbia.
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