A vintage truck at Truck Chilling Park on Bunker Road in Kamloops taken by Ranj Woods.
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/ Facebook/ The City of Kamloops
September 29, 2022 - 6:00 PM
A unique new park featuring vintage trucks is complete and open to the public.
Truck Chilling Park is a heritage themed park that features some of the machinery that helped build the city.
“We set up a static floral display in a retired one-ton GMC truck from the 1940s last year at this location and it was so popular with the public, we decided to add more pieces and formalize the space into an accessible park,” parks manager Jeff Putnam said in a press release last month.
In the park is a 1947 Chevrolet pickup truck, a 1949 Federal truck and a road grader the city bought in 1928.
The park offers accessible parking, pathways and picnic tables, according to a media post from the City of Kamloops.
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The name of the park could be a humorous spin-off of Vancouver’s Barge Chilling Beach that has been a subject of entertainment and photos this year.
A huge barge washed up onto Sunset Beach in English Bay during a storm in Nov. 2021 and is still in the process of being removed.
After the storm, Vancouver’s parks board installed a sign naming the location Barge Chilling Beach as a comical reference to a sign an artist set up in an east Vancouver park in 2012 renaming it Dude Chilling Park.
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Truck Chilling Park is located at the intersection of Bunker Road and McGill Road.
It is dog friendly too, as long as the dogs are kept on leashes.
— With files from the Canadian Press
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