Best Things to Do in Vancouver

What Vancouver is worth your time for

Vancouver is the only major North American city where you can ski in the morning and sail in the afternoon — and eat some of the best Asian food outside Asia.

Best things to do in Vancouver

• Stanley Park + Seawall

  400-hectare park; 10 km seawall walk/bike loop with skyline + Lions Gate views — free.

• Capilano Suspension Bridge Park

  140 m suspension bridge + treetop walk over rainforest canyon; CA$70; free shuttle from Canada Place.

• Grouse Mountain Skyride

  Gondola or free Grouse Grind hike (2h up); ski + snowboard in winter, grizzly + logger show in summer.

• Granville Island Public Market

  Ferry-across-False-Creek pedestrian district — best food-hall market in Canada, artist studios.

• Museum of Anthropology (UBC)

  Indigenous Northwest Coast art in Arthur Erickson concrete masterpiece; CA$18.

Booking tours and experiences

Timed-entry sights and small-group tours in Vancouver sell out first in peak season. Booking the two or three experiences you care most about before arrival usually costs the same and protects the dates you want.

Fitting it into your days

Plan around 3–5 days. Group sights by neighbourhood rather than by ranking — it saves hours of backtracking.