Fantasy Gardens

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A panorama of Fantasy Gardens.

Fantasy Gardens is a former amusement park in Richmond, British Columbia that is located at the corner of Steveston Highway and No. 5 Road. The park is called Fantasy Gardens because it is surrounded by a series of stone buildings that have the appearance of having been built during the Middle Ages. These buildings look so genuinely ancient that they have been used as a backdrop in numerous music videos, television productions, and movies (it stood in for Halloweentown in Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge).

Behind the stone buildings are the Biblical Gardens. These gardens are filled with numerous religious icons, including a hedge that has been carved into the shape of a Bible.

During the early 1990s there was an amusement park at Fantasy Garden, but it was small scale. The biggest attraction was a miniature railroad that visitors could ride through out the park and the gardens. When the fair closed down, most of the miniature railroad tracks were ripped up. Before being closed, this miniature railroad was filmed and it appeared in the X-Files episode "The Calusari." During this episode, a toddler chases a balloon that is being carried away by a ghost, and he runs on to the track and is hit and killed by the train.

Recently, Fantasy Gardens was home to a massive plant store which has a pond filled with turtles. Many people visited the store just to get a glimpse of the turtles. This plant store closed its location at Fantasy Gardens, moving to Alderbridge Way in northern Richmond.