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Explore the active life
Saturday, May 1st, 2004 by GetawayBC.com
Let’s say you’ve always wanted to learn how to do an Eskimo roll, maybe you want to learn hip hop dancing or have a penchant for Chinese brush painting. Burnaby Parks and Recreation facilities offer all of that and more.
With recreation facilities in every corner of the city, its convenient too. Here’s a list of what Burnaby has to offer.
- Bonsor Recreation Complex – 6550 Bonsor Avenue, 604-439-1860. One of the city’s largest and most varied recreation complexes, it sports a swimming pool, leisure pool, sauna, whirlpool, racquet courts, gymnasium, weight room, fine arts and dance studios, seniors’ lounge and activity rooms, cafe and pro shop. They offer fitness and swimming classes, meeting/activity/party room rentals, and a banquet hall (capacity 300). Like many Burnaby facilities, its wheelchair accessible with handicap washrooms, elevators, aquatic wheelchairs and an aquatic pool lift.
- Cameron Recreation Complex – 9523 Cameron Street, 604-421-5225. Here you’ll find indoor tennis and racquet courts, a weight room, fitness classes, gymnasium, indoor cycling studio, refreshment counter, pro shop, seniors’ lounge/activity room, meeting/activity/party room rentals, library, and a banquet hall (capacity 200).
- Eileen Dailly Leisure Pool & Fitness Centre – 240 Willingdon Avenue, Phone: 604.298.7946. Located in Central Valley, this centre has a swimming pool, water slide, leisure pool, children’s water play area, sauna, whirlpool, steam room, weight room, fitness classes, cafe and meeting/activity/party room rentals. There are also washrooms, change rooms, a zero-entry pool, aquatic wheelchairs and personal transfer lift for the disabled.
- Eastburn Community Centre – 7435 Edmonds Street, Phone: 604.525.5361. It has a weight room, games room, gymnasium, meeting/activity room rentals and banquet hall (capacity 140).
- Willingdon Community Centre – 1491 Carleton Avenue, Phone: 604.299.1446. Features a weight room, cardio room, games room, fitness classes, meeting/ activity/party room rentals and banquet hall (capacity 120).
- Burnaby South Fitness & Leisure Centre – 5455 Rumble Street, Phone: 604.433.1166. Patrons have access to a 200-metre indoor track, gymnasium, weight room, dance/fitness room and multipurpose room. It’s located within Burnaby South Secondary School.
- C.G. Brown Memorial Pool – 3702 Kensington Avenue, Phone: 604.299.9374. You can use the swimming pool, water slide, sauna, whirlpool, leisure pool and weight room. It also has an aquatic pool lift and aquatic wheelchair.
- Harry Jerome Sports Centre – 7564 Barnet Hwy
Phone: 604.291.2007, Home to North America’s only indoor velodrome, there are also ndoor volleyball courts, multi-purpose gym space and a meeting room.
- Bill Copeland Sports Centre – 3676 Kensington Avenue, Phone: 604.291.1261. There are twin ice arenas – one with 2,000-seat spectator capacity – that are used for ice skating & other ice sports during the fall and winter. The facilities are home to in-line skating and hockey and lacrosse during the spring and summer. There’s also meeting/activity/party room rentals, food service. The facility has 73,000 square feet of space available for conventions, trade shows, concerts and banquets.
- Kensington Complex – 6159 Curtis Street, Phone: 604.299.8354. There’s ice skating and other ice sports during the fall and winter, in-line skating and lacrosse in the spring and summer. Also boasts a snack bar, and meeting/activity/party room rentals.