Paddle Alouette Lake at Golden Ears

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

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.

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

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

200 bird species, a 7-acre community garden and the kind of big-sky openness that has a strange way of making people tell the truth.

Where the Nicomekl River meets Boundary Bay and the birds arrive in the thousands, free and open from dawn to dusk.

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

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

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

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.

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

Flat South Langley trails through meadow, farmland and heritage barn territory, rated 4.7 by thousands of people who could not stop talking about it.

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

One of Canada's biggest kayak fleets, English Bay, a possible seal, and a sunset that'll make you look good for free.