Sunset at 1001 Steps and Kwomais Point

The cliche that earned it. Eight free volleyball nets, a driftwood log, and English Bay going full pink.

Stanley Park's west-facing sandy cove, where everyone on the seawall cycles past while you watch the real show.

Grab Denman Street takeout, claim a driftwood log, and watch the sun drop behind the North Shore mountains. Free, always.

The one Vancouver sunset where the sand goes on forever, the crowds go home, and the sky takes its sweet time.

Movies under the stars on the North Vancouver waterfront, by donation.

Vancouver's best kite-flying lawn sits between Kits Beach and Granville Island, with a postcard skyline view and zero admission.

Ten days of free waterfront concerts, an artisan market and wine gardens along West Vancouver's Ambleside seawall.

Ten minutes through never-logged Douglas firs to warm granite bluffs above the Point Atkinson lighthouse and Howe Sound.

English Bay's quieter cousin at the mouth of False Creek, where the ferries, the mountains, and the freighters all line up.

Canada's longest pier stretches 470 metres over Semiahmoo Bay, Mount Baker glowing across the water like it's showing off.

A flat mirror-still lake loop that grows 700,000 lights every November and calls itself Lights at Lafarge.

Surrey wandered off and became a seaside village, and Boundary Bay sunsets at Sullivan Point are the local proof.

Burnaby Mountain's Ainu totems face a golden Burrard Inlet at sunset while 900 rose bushes perfume the whole situation in summer.

A rare hike you can do in nice shoes, 5 km of coastal forest, rocks at the end, Indian Arm below.