Vancouver Features

Experience Vancouver

If you have only one day in Vancouver, start with an early morning walk, bike, or shuttle ride through...

A Good Tour: Stanley Park

If you're walking or cycling, start at the foot of Alberni Street, beside Lost Lagoon. Go through the...

When to Go to Vancouver

Vancouver is perhaps most enjoyable in the shoulder seasons: May and June, September and October, when...

Where to Shop in Vancouver

Robson Street, stretching from Burrard to Bute, is the city's main fashion-shopping and people-watching...

Best Coffee Bars

Fuelled by Caffeine" is the slogan for a Vancouver-based minichain of coffeehouses, and it also seems...

Hiking & Biking in Vancouver

Vancouver offers plenty of easy forest walks in city and regional parks, as well as challenging wilderness...

Walking Tour: Robson Street

Begin on Robson Street, at Bute or Thurlow Street. Follow Robson southeast to Hornby Street to reach...

Quick Bites

With sushi bars on every corner (or so it often seems), cafés all across the city, and plenty...

To reach Granville Island on foot, make the 15-minute walk from downtown Vancouver to the south end of...

Hit the Beach in Vancouver

An almost continuous string of beaches runs from Stanley Park to the University of British Columbia...

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