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Vancouver is supposed to be explored Outdoors. Due to the temperate climate and heavy amount of rain, Vancouver has the most lush outdoor areas, Queen Elizabeth Park is an example of this area.
If you’re not feeling like walking it almost 1,000 acres, you have the opportunity to see some amazing outdoor attractions such as Stanley Park, Grouse Mountain and so on.
To increase your happiness during your visit, ensure to walk across the Capilano Suspension Bridge, which hovers 230 feet on top of the Capilano River. When the feeling of weakness is caused by lack of food, there’s plenty of delicious market eats at Granville Island and various restaurants waiting for you to make your move.
1. Visit Bard on The Beach
This is one of Canada’s biggest festivals that takes place every year from the start of June through September. Tents are situated in Vanier Park in Vancouver, on the waterfront where the theatre-goers can celebrate the festival and watch the play hosted by Bard on the Beach Theatre Society whose task is to perform Shakespeare works.
2. Relax on Kitsilano Beach
Kitsilano Beach is based on the north edge of the Kitsilano neighbourhood, the most famous beaches mainly in the hot summer months. With so many activities the beach offer, why not take advantage on the grassy fields, sandy beach and the beach volleyball courts. What makes it even better is uniting with a group of friends for a game of volleyball, not to mention enjoying your favorite food and drinks at a nearby ocean-side eateries.
3. Go To Eat At Granville Island Public Market
There nothing better than shopping at the Granville Island Public Market when visiting Vancouver. An indoor market that brings you a mixture of delicious colourful food. The market will definitely have your taste buds rolling into sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and saltiness that comes from several seafood, Bakeries, Speciality foods, fruit and veg. If none of that pleases you, why not go for a yummy Takeaway & Fast Food from the Market Grill.
Opening times: Daily 9am – 7pm.
Location: 1669 Johnston St.
Prices: Free.
4. Look For The Bears on Vancouver Island
The Bears are associated with The place by birth, whether it’s a black bear or grizzly bears, they are all there. Finding them shouldn’t be a problem, there many ways to locate them. You can join the Bear-watching boat tours that leave from Tofino on the south-west coast of Vancouver Island, to look for black bears between the rock pools of Clayoquot Sound.
You can also go DIY in port Alberni, a place where some bears can be found eating on salmon closer to Victoria Quay around the month of June and October. Grouse Mountain will be the place if you are interested in finding grizzly bears. Go to Knight or Bute Inlet to experience them in the wild. What’s even more interesting, you are able to book a luxury package with Knight Inlet Lodge, a remote floating retreat bang in the middle of the area of grizzly at Glendale Cove.
5. Visit Grouse Mountain
Grouse Mountain has been a famous outdoor getaway for a long time, mainly since the sight from the highest point of the mountain gives the whole image of the city on a broad daylight. Before Grouse Mountain would only provide you with activities such as skiing, but now the mountain has added more year-round activities like Grouse grind, an almost 2 mile trail which residents sometime call “Mother Nature’s Stairmaster” and this includes a total of 2,830 stairs along the trail.
Visiting in the winter means more fun as the Grouse Mountain gives you more enjoyable things to do. The Mountain’s slopes boast 33 ski and snowboard runs, four chairlifts and six terrain parks, and in addition Snowshoeing trails. A zip line is also included, a skating pond, a high-definition cinema, a wildlife refuge and multiple restaurant and cafes such as Starbucks.
6. Drive Around the Sky Highway
If we had to make a top 5 list of the world most beautiful drives, the sea-to-sky would be on top of the list. It takes tourists on a 2.5 journey, from the heart of downtown Vancouver to the world class ski town of Whistler. The area includes amazing waterfalls, stunning vistas, delightful cultural center and a suspension bridge that will make you bring your camera, plenty food and ensure that you have enough gas in your car, because this place is so addictive that you will want to stay longer.
7. Go on a Night out to Yaletown
Yaletown has gradually developed in popularity until it changed from a warehouse district in the stylish area it is now. In most peoples minds, there is so much comparison between Yaletown and New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. Yaletown includes restaurants, chic boutiques and hotels. Even if you don’t plan to stay the night at the restaurant, you should still plan to visit the hotel’s cocktail lounge. Other nightlife spots you should surely check out are Pierre’s Lounge, Yaletown Brewing Co and Bar None. This place will certainly not disappoint you as many people have praised them to be the best place to visit.
8. Visit Museum of Anthropology
For birthdays were really not been celebrated in the city itself, the place on which Vancouver was discovered presents a rich, cultural past. The Museum of Anthropology which is part of the University of British Columbia) houses known as the most inspiring collections of art and artifacts in the world from the Northwest Coast First Nations. While being in the great hall alone, you will come across ritual masks, totem poles, ornately decorated canoes and different Native American relics. Different part of the museum presents 15th-century European pottery, priceless jewelry and local art.
9. Take a walk at the Stanley Park
You could book more than one day at this park and still will be thirsty to see more of what this oasis has to provide. To view the park like the locals do, you will need cycle, walk or jog around the nearly 20-mile-long seawall that hugs the Vancouver waterfront.
The path begins at the Vancouver convention centre and finishes at the Spanish Bank Beach Park. If doing the walk doesn’t interest you, there are multiple bike rental companies around the park for you to cycle. The most beneficial park of cycle is that you will be able to travel more than 17 miles of forest trails to places that are more peaceful and quiet.
Most tourists who have visited the place already, suggest biking the South Creek Trail, which takes you all the way to lily pad-covered Beaver Lake. If that still doesn’t satisfy you, there are more fun activities the park provide such as a hop-on, hop-off trolley or a horse-drawn carriage.
10. Take a view of the city on Vancouver Lookout
If there was a vote for the best sightseeing in Vancouver, Vancouver Lookout would win the vote. From the panoramic observation deck, you will love a 360-degree view of the city beneath, also the North Shore and Olympic Peninsula Mountains, including the sprawling Stanley Park.
Located on the 55th floor of the Harbour Centre building in downtown Vancouver, you can get to the lookout through glass elevator, where the 40-second ride takes guests up more than 550 feet to the top. To get the best views, most visitors recommend a visit during a clear day.
11. Exploire Vancouver Aquarium
Just like other beautiful places in Vancouver, the Vancouver Aquarium has been just another appealing place you wouldn’t want to miss while visiting the city. The city is known for its vast amount of animals which can be more than 50,000 different animals related to 734 different species, and if you are looking to become familiarized with local animals as well as exotic creatures, then this is the perfect place.
If you like animal performance, then you should book a ticket to Seaworld, Because at Vancouver Aquarium you will only experience interactive exhibits and education. Dissimilar exhibits mimic several habitats, from the icy tanks of the Canada’s Artic exhibit to the colorful clownfish and intimidating black-tip reef sharks sheltered in the tropic zone. While you there, ensure that you take a look at the Graham Gallery, a giant atrium where three-toed sloths and stunning tree frogs take shelter from the hourly simulated rainstorms.
12. Walk Across Capilano Bridge
Although it is known to be the oldest tourist attraction in the city, this long, 230-foot high bridge brings you a magnificent view of the Capilano River underneath.
Those who have been across the bridge before, can’t just get enough of it, as they call it a beautiful experience. Reaching the other side of the canyon, means the funs just getting greater, plenty of suspension bridges and activities be waiting for you at the Treetops Adventure.
With this canopy walk – based among the park’s 250-year-old Douglas fir trees – you’ll have the opportunity to walk 110 feet on top of the forest floor. As you continue, you will come to the Cliffwalk, which is a set of cantilevered and excluded walkways that follows a route along the canyon’s edge.
13. Take a Trip to Queen Elizabeth Park
Queen Elizabeth Park is one of Vancouver’s most famous Park, which attracts more than 6 million visitors every year. This park is greater in size that it contains multiple areas including a rose garden, a meticulously manicured quarry garden, and an arboretum with about 1.500 native and exotic trees.
If you’re not too busy spending time at the Park flora, you should explore the inside of the Bloedel conservatory to vie the fauna. The conservatory includes about 120 free-flying exotic birds, and also about 500 tropical plants and three dissimilar climate zones.
If you had enough of the inside, you should step outside the conservatory and enjoy the Dancing Waters fountain display, which is not difficult to miss once you’re outside. Not to mention multiple sculptures scattered through the plaza. Since the park is based on the tallest point in Vancouver, the Park took the advantage to offer visitors an impressive view of the city skyline, mountains and shoreline from the fountain plaza.
14. Enjoy the view of the Sea at Spanish Banks Beach
Spanish Banks Beach is looked at differently from the rest of the city due to some of the features it offers. As it is positioned about 5 miles northwest of downtown Vancouver, Spanish Banks is the known as the most quiet area with a small crowd, so if you enjoy peace and quiet beaches, this is the place for you.
Not to mention the greatest place to try your hand at Skimboarding – a cross between surfing and skateboarding – because of the small tidal conditions at low tide the water is more half a mile off shore. If you don’t feel like getting water on you, there are several volleyball courts around for pick-up games. Tourists who have attended the place, used the word beautiful beach and mentioned that exploring at small tide is enjoyable, mainly for children.
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