Walking through a slice of the CP Hill forest one April morning to the gentle rush of streams, Virginia Thompson described the noise as “the million-dollar sound.” Serenity Park, a one-hectare swath of cedar hemlock stands nestled at 711 and 789 Cedar St., has earned distinction this year as something new for Revelstoke: an urban forest. “I wanted to protect this land since I first walked it in 2005,” Thompson said of Serenity Park, which she endowed to the City of Revelstoke earlier in 2025 and will see celebrated later this fall with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony. Thompson, formerly a mental-health counsellor who spent her two decades in Revelstoke as an environmentalist, originally acquired the land ahead of her arrival to town 20 years ago…