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Must See

Signal Hill rising rockily above the
harbor, with the city of St. John’s
illuminated below

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Pippy Park Cape Spear East End
Lighthouse National
⌂ Nagles Place # Daily Historic Site of Canada ⌂ King’s Bridge Rd n(709)

∑ pippypark.com 570 2038
⌂ Blackhead Road § (709)
Visitors are sometimes 772 5367 # Visitor Centre: East End is one of St. John’s
startled to see moose mid–end May: 10am–6pm most architecturally rich
roaming free in St. John’s, Wed–Sun; Jun–Labour Day neighborhoods, its streets
but it happens regularly in weekend: 10am–6pm daily; lined with elegant homes.
this 3,460-acre (1,400-ha) Labour Day weekend–mid-
nature park, located just Oct: 10am–6pm Sat–Wed
2 miles (3 km) from the town EXPLORING
center. It is the largest Lying 6 miles (10 km) southeast ST. JOHN’S
provincially managed park of town, Cape Spear marks the Newfoundland’s capital
in Canada, stretching more most easterly point in North is easily explored on
than three times the size of America. Set atop seaside foot. Most of the sights
Vancouver’s Stanley Park. cliffs, the majestic Cape Spear are within a short
Pippy Park is also home to Lighthouse has long been a distance of each other
the local Botanical Gardens symbol of Newfoundland’s moving east along
and the only Fluvarium in independence and marine Water Street. Approach­
North America, an environ- history. Two lighthouses ing by sea offers the
mental educational center now stand here: the original, best view of the harbor,
with nine underwater built in 1836, is the oldest in particularly the steep
windows that look into a Newfoundland, while beside cliff­lined passage on
rushing freshwater trout it stands the graceful, modern, the east side, where
stream. Other attractions automated lighthouse, added the pastel­colored
at the site include camping, in 1955. The original lighthouse old houses of the
a wealth of walking trails, has been restored to show how Battery (p337) cling pre­
plus a popular golf course a 19th-century keeper and his cariously to the rocks.
and driving range. family would have lived.
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