Vancouver — Sights
Glass towers on the water, snow peaks behind
- Stanley Park & the Seawall — A loop of forest and sea, about an hour by bike
- Granville Island & Public Market — An old factory island turned market; take the toy ferry to lunch
- Gastown & the Steam Clock — A cobbled street and a clock that whistles steam every 15 minutes
- Capilano Suspension Bridge Park — A swaying bridge 70 m over a canyon; pricey but packed with things to do
- Lynn Canyon Park (free suspension bridge) — A free swinging bridge and emerald canyon pools
- Grouse Mountain — Eight minutes up by gondola, the city and sea at your feet
- Vancouver Lookout — One ticket, good all day: come up once by day and again at night
- Canada Place & FlyOver — A sail-roofed pier with a 4D flight over Canada at the end
- Queen Elizabeth Park — The city's highest hill, an old quarry turned flower garden
- Kitsilano Beach — A neighbourhood beach looking back at the skyline and mountains
- English Bay at sunset — Sit on a driftwood log and watch the sun drop behind the freighters
- Museum of Anthropology at UBC — A forest of totem poles under a soaring glass hall
- Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden & Chinatown — A Ming-style garden built by Suzhou craftsmen; a quiet pond in a noisy city
- Richmond Night Market — Summer weekend nights, hundreds of Asian street-food stalls
- Whistler day trip via the Sea-to-Sky — Two hours of coast-and-mountain road to the 2010 Olympic mountain village
- Victoria day trip — A ferry across the strait to a very British little harbour town
- VanDusen Botanical Garden — Garden with a hedge maze and winter lights
- Vancouver Art Gallery — The city's main art museum, in the old courthouse
- Science World — Silver dome where kids and adults touch everything
- Spanish Banks Beach — Beach where the tide pulls far out
- Quarry Rock Trail & Deep Cove — Easy forest trail to a bay view, then doughnuts
- Lighthouse Park — Old-growth path ending at rocks and a lighthouse
- Nitobe Memorial Garden — A Japanese stroll garden around a pond and tea house
- Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site — A salmon cannery turned museum
- Vancouver Maritime Museum — The Arctic schooner St. Roch lives here
- Pacific Spirit Regional Park — Fifty kilometres of forest trail beside UBC