Wander the Trails at Campbell Valley Park

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

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

The glacier-fed lake so clear you'll forget there's a Costco 40 minutes away, paddle included.

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

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

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.

Big-sky dyke-top walking where the Fraser meets the sea, with a 10-metre treehouse that grown adults are absolutely allowed to climb.

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

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

A free boardwalk jutting into Burnaby Lake where numbered turtles sun themselves and herons ignore you completely.

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.