Fridays on Front Block Party

Free Tuesday-night movies on a forty-foot screen in Stanley Park's Ceperley Meadows: picnic at sunset, film under the stars.

A free oceanside amphitheatre at Kits Beach, been running since the 1930s, still better than most paid dates.

Mount Pleasant's successor to the Mural Fest street party: car-free Main Street, four free music stages, local vendors and food trucks for one August Saturday.

Fourteen three-metre bronze men frozen in full hysterical laughter, open 24/7, and required by inscription to bring you joy.

North Vancouver's Friday ritual: food trucks, live bands and a beer garden on Burrard Inlet, with the downtown skyline across the water.

Two free kilometres of Coal Harbour glamour: the Olympic Cauldron, a LEGO-look orca, floatplanes, and zero spent.

One of the world's only steam clocks, cobblestones, gas lamps, and Vancouver's full origin story for the cost of absolutely nothing.

'Beer Island' is a one-acre tidal wildlife refuge off the False Creek seawall that you reach via stepping stones and costs nothing.

The ticketed garden's free sibling: koi, lily ponds, a pagoda, and a full afternoon in Chinatown for $0.

300-plus murals mapped free on the VMF app around Main Street. A treasure hunt with very large prizes.

A free Thursday movie on a 33-foot screen on the downtown Art Gallery plaza, with activations from 5pm and the film at dusk.

A gentle 8 km out-and-back along the Fraser River from Fort Langley village to the original 1827 fort site.

Two five-metre house sparrows stand in Olympic Village square, free to visit, and exactly as uncanny as that sounds.

Free colour-coded trails through 5,000 hectares of Douglas firs and old growth that predates Canada. UBC's lab, your date.