Sunset Concerts at the Harmony Arts Festival

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

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

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

West Van's waterfront walk puts Lions Gate, Stanley Park and the whole downtown skyline across Burrard Inlet at your disposal.

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.

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

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

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

An iconic zig-zag staircase down through forest to a quiet pebble beach with big Boundary Bay sunsets and balancing-rock cairns.

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

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

Arrive an hour before sundown on Port Moody's waterfront pier, stay for the ice cream, extend with the nearby brewery row.

Former basalt quarry turned sunken flower garden, with a stone bridge that has starred in approximately every Vancouver wedding photo.