Capilano Suspension Bridge
A wire cable bridge 70 metres above the Capilano River — long enough (140 m) that you feel every sway before you reach the other side.
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Built in 1889 with hemp rope and cedar planks, this bridge has been swinging over the same canyon for over a century. The park around it layers on Treetops Adventures — seven footbridges strung between old-growth Douglas firs up to 30 metres above the forest floor — and a collection of totem poles that local Indigenous peoples began placing here in 1935. Three separate things to experience, all inside one admission.
What to look for
- The wire cable span itself: 140 m long, 70 m above the river — the 1889 original used hemp rope and cedar planks before the wire replacement in 1903
- Seven Treetops Adventures footbridges suspended between old-growth Douglas firs, up to 30 m above the forest floor on the canyon's west side
- Totem poles placed by local Indigenous peoples from 1935 onward, when owner Mac MacEachran invited them into the park
Private facility with an admission fee; over 1.2 million visitors come annually, so a weekday morning gives you the bridge with less crowd.
Capilano Suspension Bridge 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
- BC 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.
- 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.