BC Place
A 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.
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Built for Expo 86 and opened in 1983, BC Place anchored the 2010 Winter Olympics, hosted the 2015 Women's World Cup final, and is set for 2026 FIFA World Cup knockout matches. Three separate eras of global sport, one building on False Creek's north shore.
What to look for
- The retractable cable-supported roof, which replaced the original inflatable dome deflated for the last time on May 4, 2010
- The BC Sports Hall of Fame, located inside the stadium
- The False Creek waterfront, which the stadium fronts on its south side
BC Lions (CFL) and Vancouver Whitecaps FC (MLS) both play here; check schedules before you go — the stadium is in regular use.
BC Place is one of 13 sights worth the detour in Vancouver, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Vancouver pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Vancouver
- Rogers 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.
- Stanley ParkA thousand acres of old-growth forest on a downtown peninsula — bigger than Central Park, as old as Vancouver itself.
- Pacific ColiseumThe rink where Vancouver first played NHL hockey — and where 2010 Olympic skaters competed on the same ice.
- Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports CentreCanada's first national hockey team was born on this ice in 1963 — and the Vancouver Canucks still practice here.
- Richmond 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.
- Vancouver 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.