Adventure & Outdoors
Conquer the Grouse Grind
The date that earns its smugness: 2,830 steps up, Skyride gondola down, beers and jelly legs at the top.
Grouse Mountain, 6400 Nancy Greene Way, North Vancouver
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The date that earns its smugness: 2,830 steps up, Skyride gondola down, beers and jelly legs at the top.
Grouse Mountain, 6400 Nancy Greene Way, North Vancouver
More infoLocals call it Mother Nature's StairMaster, and that's the gentle version. The Grouse Grind is 2.5 sweaty kilometres straight up Grouse Mountain, gaining 800 metres over roughly 2,830 steps, technically a date if your love language is shared suffering. The genius is the exit: the trail only goes up, so you ride the Skyride gondola down together, jellied and smug. Loser buys the beers at the chalet.
This is the suffer-together leg: 2.5 km and 800 m straight up via roughly 2,830 steps, one-way only. Go on a dry day before the base lineup stacks, carry more water than you think, and budget 1.5 to 2 hours to climb plus the Skyride down (the only ticket you pay for). Arrive legs-jellied and smug, where a patio beer and the whole city below make the perfect cool-down.
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