Sunset from Third Beach at Ferguson Point

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.

English Bay's quieter cousin at the mouth of False Creek, where the ferries, the mountains, and the freighters all line up.

The highest point in Stanley Park, straight down the Lions Gate Bridge, and an ice-cream stand to stand at while you stare.

Ten minutes through never-logged Douglas firs to warm granite bluffs above the Point Atkinson lighthouse and Howe Sound.

Stanley Park's quiet inner lake does herons, swans, a 1936 fountain and benches, without a single cyclist in sight.

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

Canada's longest pier stretches 470 metres over Semiahmoo Bay, Mount Baker glowing across the water like it's showing off.

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

Tiny rainbow ferries, five-minute crossing, Granville Island oysters, and a skyline that glows on the way home.

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

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

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

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