Hike High Knoll at Minnekhada

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

Six flat kilometres along Burrard Inlet to a sandy beach at Old Orchard Park. Most first-timers never make it.

Four kilometres of gentle climbing buys you a wooden platform over Howe Sound with Bowen Island below and the city behind you.

A West Vancouver forest walk past 300-year-old cedars to two waterfalls that make you instinctively lower your voice without agreeing to.

West Van's secret swim spot: 5 km of forest trail, 200 metres up, and a dock built for cannonballs.

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

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

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

An 8 km Cypress climb past historic log cabins and First Lake to a summit above the Lions and Howe Sound.

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

A brutally steep start on Burke Mountain that earns you a quiet backcountry lake almost nobody else has picnicked at.

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

An 11-km round trip on the Howe Sound Crest Trail delivering clifftop lunch and ferries crawling below like bath toys.

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