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Quiet Beach Picnic at Locarno
Vancouver's designated quiet beach, meaning you can actually hear your date talk, which changes everything.
Scenic & Romantic
Vancouver's designated quiet beach, meaning you can actually hear your date talk, which changes everything.
Locarno is an officially designated quiet beach, which means the city itself has decreed that no amplified sound is allowed here, which means no one's Bluetooth speaker is going to narrate your entire afternoon. It sits between Jericho and Spanish Banks on the west side, with grassy picnic-table areas behind a wide, gentle strip of sand, the North Shore mountains sitting handsomely across the water, and a west-facing shore that goes properly molten at sunset. At low tide the water pulls back so far it leaves a warm sandflat you can wander out into, like you've quietly found your own small corner of the bay. People report finding spots here even on a glorious summer Saturday, which for a Vancouver beach borders on miraculous. Bring a blanket, bring the snacks, bring the person you want to actually hear.
