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Vancouver
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Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0 About Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6 million in 2021, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada after Toronto and Montreal. The region, together with the Fraser Valley, makes up the Lower Mainland, which has a total population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 inhabitants per square kilometre (15,000/sq mi), and the fourth highest in North America.
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Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Bobanny assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domainTrek CanadaThe Stanley Park Seawall: Coal Harbour to English Bay on Foot
A flat, ten-kilometre loop around the edge of Vancouver's great forest park, from the marinas of Coal Harbour past totem poles, a lighthouse, the Lions Gate Bridge and a lone sea stack, to the sunset beaches of English Bay.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Itinerary Canada
Vancouver in 5 days
Five days that show why Vancouver is different from every other big North American city: the seawall and Stanley Park, the rainforest canyons of the North Shore, Granville Island and the beaches, the Sea-to-Sky Highway into the mountains, and a day across the water in Victoria.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Distance
- 40 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: MARELBU · CC BY 3.0City walk CanadaVictoria in a day from Vancouver
British Columbia's capital as a long day trip: the ferry through the Gulf Islands, Butchart Gardens, and a walk around the Inner Harbour from the Parliament Buildings and the Empress to the Royal BC Museum and Canada's oldest Chinatown.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Markus Säynevirta · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction CanadaCapilano Suspension Bridge Park
Vancouver's most famous thrill: a swaying footbridge 137 metres long and 70 metres above the Capilano River, with a treetop walkway through old Douglas firs and a cantilevered cliffside path on the far side of the canyon.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: No real name given · CC BY 2.0City walk CanadaEnglish Bay to Kits Beach: Vancouver's Beach Walk
A summer walk from the laughing bronze figures at English Bay along Sunset Beach, over the Art Deco Burrard Bridge and through the museums of Vanier Park to Kitsilano Beach and the longest outdoor pool in North America.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: The Cosmonaut · CC BY-SA 2.5 caTrek CanadaGaribaldi Lake from Rubble Creek
The big day hike of the Sea-to-Sky: nine kilometres and about 900 metres up through old forest from Rubble Creek to a vast turquoise lake held back by a volcanic lava dam, with glaciers pouring into its far shore.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 18 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Lee Coursey from Decatur, GA · CC BY 2.0City walk CanadaGastown to Chinatown: Vancouver's Oldest Streets
A short, dense walk from the white sails of Canada Place through the cobbled saloon town where Vancouver began, past the steam clock and Maple Tree Square, into Canada's largest Chinatown and a Ming-style garden built by craftsmen from Suzhou.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk CanadaGranville Island and False Creek by Ferry and Foot
Cross False Creek on a bathtub-sized ferry to Granville Island's public market and working studios, then walk the south-shore seawall past the Olympic Village to the geodesic dome of Science World.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Giuseppe Milo · CC BY 2.0Trek CanadaJoffre Lakes: Three Glacier Lakes Under the Matier Icefield
A five-kilometre climb past three turquoise lakes, each brighter than the last, to Upper Joffre Lake at the foot of a hanging glacier. One of the most photographed hikes in BC, with a pass system and cultural closures you need to plan around.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek CanadaLynn Canyon: Suspension Bridge, 30 Foot Pool and Twin Falls
A short rainforest loop on the North Shore that locals prefer to Capilano: a free suspension bridge 50 metres above Lynn Creek, a green swimming hole, and a second bridge over Twin Falls, all in about three kilometres.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Xicotencatl · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction CanadaMuseum of Anthropology at UBC, Nitobe Garden and the Wreck Beach Stairs
The finest room in Vancouver, a hall of Northwest Coast totem poles behind a wall of glass, followed by a Japanese garden next door and a few hundred steps down to the wildest beach in the city.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: No machine-readable author provided. LilDice assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5Trek CanadaQuarry Rock from Deep Cove
A short, rooty forest climb on the Baden-Powell Trail from the seaside village of Deep Cove to a bare granite outcrop with a sweeping view over Indian Arm, the fjord at the eastern edge of the North Shore.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.8 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: DarkNight0917 · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction CanadaSea to Sky Gondola, Shannon Falls and the Chief
An hour north of Vancouver on one of the great coastal highways: a 335-metre waterfall at the roadside, a ten-minute gondola to 885 metres above Howe Sound, a suspension bridge across the void and a straight look at the face of the Stawamus Chief.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Pburka at English Wikipedia · Public domainTrek CanadaThe Grouse Grind
Vancouver's famous fitness test: 2.5 kilometres and about 800 metres of relentless climbing, much of it on stairs, straight up the face of Grouse Mountain through rainforest to a chalet with a view over the whole city. You ride the gondola down.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2.5 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Iiii I I I · CC BY 4.0Attraction CanadaVancouver Aquarium: The Pacific Coast Under One Roof
A two-to-three-hour loop through Vancouver's aquarium, tucked into the trees of Stanley Park: the cold, strange life of the BC coast first, rescued sea otters and sea lions outside, then a humid detour into the Amazon.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy