Ferry to Bowen Island for the Killarney Lake Loop

The 4.4 km Deer Lake loop wraps in under an hour and deposits you beside a rowboat rental and Burnaby's heritage district.

Grab rentals on Denman, go counter-clockwise, and let 9 km of Coal Harbour yachts and Lions Gate Bridge views do the romantic heavy lifting.

The date that earns its smugness: 2,830 steps up, Skyride gondola down, beers and jelly legs at the top.

A 25 km river loop around all of Port Coquitlam, almost zero hills, salmon in the water and absolutely no pressure to finish it.

Paddle a glacial fjord from a sheltered postcard village and earn a legendary Honey Doughnut on the way back.

Vancouver showing off everything it has in one gloriously flat, car-free, 10 km loop where the ocean is the only map you need.

Prince of Whales runs heated catamarans out of Granville Island after orcas and humpbacks, with a 95 percent sighting rate and hot chocolate on board.

Locals' pick over Capilano: a free 50-metre suspension bridge over a roaring gorge, with emerald swimming holes and no eighty-dollar admission guilt.

Big-sky dyke-top walking where the Fraser meets the sea, with a 10-metre treehouse that grown adults are absolutely allowed to climb.

A flat forest walk along an emerald creek to a waterfall that roars in spring and turns swimmable by late summer.

A big ridge loop above Buntzen Lake named for its ten views over Indian Arm, reserved for people who mean it.

Ten flat kilometres of boardwalk and birding around a city lake where the ducks at Piper Spit have clearly been briefed.

A forest hike in Pinecone Burke to two waterfalls, ending at the jagged Sawblade cascade that earns its extremely good name.

3.8 km from Deep Cove village through cedar rainforest to a granite outcrop hanging over Indian Arm, with doughnuts after.