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What to see in Vancouver on foot
13 sights worth the detour, all walkable, all offline.
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Vancouver is a city made for walking. This self-guided guide maps 13 of its sights worth the detour — landmarks, viewpoints, museums and galleries and parks and gardens — the places locals point to and the tour buses skip, close enough to string into a single day on foot. Download the Vancouver pack in Voyage GO before you go and the whole route works offline: no roaming, no dead battery from a live map. Every monument, viewpoint and park you pass quietly fills your travel passport.
Landmarks10
- 1BC PlaceA stadium that broke the same world record twice — first with the largest air-supported roof ever built, then with the largest cable-supported retractable roof.
- 2Rogers ArenaBuilt for C$160 million and opened in 1995, this is the rink where Vancouver's hockey soul lives — and where the city briefly renamed it Canada Hockey Place for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
- 3Pacific ColiseumThe rink where Vancouver first played NHL hockey — and where 2010 Olympic skaters competed on the same ice.
- 4Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports CentreCanada's first national hockey team was born on this ice in 1963 — and the Vancouver Canucks still practice here.
- 5Richmond Olympic OvalThe rink where Olympic speed skaters raced in 2010 is now a public arena where you can climb a wall, row a tank, or lace up hockey skates — all under one roof.
- 6Lions Gate BridgeA 1938 suspension bridge where the centre lane physically reverses direction every day — and ocean ships still pass 61 metres beneath your feet.
- 7Capilano Suspension BridgeA wire cable bridge 70 metres above the Capilano River — long enough (140 m) that you feel every sway before you reach the other side.
- 8Living Shangri-LaVancouver's tallest city-proper tower hides a free sculpture garden and art display at street level.
- 9Hillcrest Centre (Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre)The arena that hosted 2010 Olympic curling now runs eight sheets of ice for a community that includes one of Canada's oldest LGBT curling leagues.
- 10Canada PlaceFabric sail-roofs jut over Burrard Inlet — the same waterfront that drew 5 million visitors during Expo 86 now launches Alaska cruises every summer.
Viewpoints1
- 11Harbour Centre LookoutRide the elevator 168 metres above Hastings Street and get an unobstructed 360-degree read of the entire city in one sweep.
Museums & Galleries1
- 12Vancouver Art GalleryWestern Canada's largest art museum, housed in a Francis Rattenbury courthouse since 1983 — the gallery's original home even survived a 1938 sit-down strike with its paintings untouched.
Parks & Gardens1
- 13Stanley ParkA thousand acres of old-growth forest on a downtown peninsula — bigger than Central Park, as old as Vancouver itself.
