Take Transit to These 5 Vancouver Area Beaches! Enjoy gorgeous views and great amenities without worrying about parking.

If you’re looking to cool off this summer, the new book Swimming Holes and Beach of Southwestern BC by Alex McKeen and George Harwood offers an essential guide to the region’s best dips.

The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation will open two of its outdoor pools and staff its nine swimming beaches with lifeguards on May 17, 2025.

Swimmers and spectators are welcome to the 105th anniversary of the Vancouver Polar Bear Swim on January 1, 2025 at English Bay for the annual cold plunge.

As the 2024 summer season approaches, Vancouver’s pools, spray parks, and beaches are set to welcome visitors.

Kick start the summer with Cultus Lake Day on Saturday, June 22, 2019. Enjoy a pancake breakfast, parade, fireworks, and a whole day of family fun.

Here in the “Great White North” many out-of-towners might expect hockey, ice skating, and skiing to be our primary sports. However, throughout our gloriously warm summer days (and adequately warm spring and fall afternoons) Vancouverites take to the sea shore to bump, set, and spike playing beach volleyball. Beach Volleyball in Vancouver On Vancouver’s public […]

Frisbees, footballs, bikini-clad bodies, blankets, and bicycles parked along the Sea Wall are scenes of summer at Vancouver’s beaches. From Third to Locarno, English Bay to Spanish Banks, the seaside landscape has changed almost as much as the summer fashion trends. Thanks to the City of Vancouver Archives, and my niece who curated this collection, […]

This summer, you can enter to win some great local park prizes when you share your photos from a Metro Vancouver Regional Park online. To inspire your explorations, I will be sharing some of my favourite parks (with a few already listed here). Since school is out, the days are longer, and it’s officially beach […]

There are three activities I will always recommend for visitors to Vancouver (and locals) if they’re looking to fully enjoy our city: The first is to get up a mountain (hiking or by taking a SkyRide), the second is to explore Stanley Park (SeaWall and forest trails), and the third is to get out on […]