Vancouver Trip Guide
Vancouver Map: Every Place This Guide Covers
This Vancouver map puts all 46 places this guide covers on one screen: the ticketed sights with the official adult price, the free ones, the seven neighbourhoods, the restaurants three published guides name, and the eleven day trips out of the city. Filter by category, tap a pin for the price and the page that explains it, or open any point in Google Maps and walk there. Every pin below the map is repeated as text, in the same order and with the same number, because a list is readable in a way a pin is not. The wider planning picture starts on the plan hub, and the room decision on where to stay. The same Vancouver map carries the city's neighborhoods as their own filter, so you can strip it back to Gastown, Chinatown, Yaletown, the West End, Mount Pleasant and North Vancouver and see how far apart they really sit.
Quick answer 46 pins, five colours, and what each one tells you
Forty-six pins in five colours: dark green for ticketed sights, leaf green for the free ones, red for food, blue for neighbourhoods, brown for day trips out of the city. Eleven of the 46 cost nothing at all, and the most expensive single pin on the map is Capilano at $55.70 (CA$76.95) before tax.
Key takeaways
- Every pin carries the official adult price, not a platform price, and links to the page that explains it. Where a ticket is worth comparing, the popup books it: Grouse, Capilano and the Lookout all have cards on this page.
- Tap Google Maps on any pin to navigate to it from your own phone.
- Eleven pins are free, including Lynn Canyon's suspension bridge, which is the paid bridge's free alternative on the same mountainside.
- The eleven brown pins are all outside the city. How long each one takes is the table under the map.
The Map
Numbered pins, filterable by category. The text list underneath holds the same 46 places in the same order, so the numbers on the map and in the list always match, and a filtered view keeps its original numbers rather than renumbering.
Ticketed sights 11 pins
- Capilano Suspension Bridge Park$55.70 (CA$76.95) plus GSTCheck AvailabilityPrivate park, and the only paid suspension bridge in the region. Free shuttle from Canada Place.
- Grouse Mountain$64.50 (CA$89)Check AvailabilityBus 236 from Lonsdale Quay, about 25 minutes, with a CA$10 credit for arriving by transit.
- Vancouver Aquariumfrom $30.40 (CA$41.95)Check AvailabilityInside Stanley Park, which is free; the aquarium is not. Adult pricing is a dynamic range.
- Vancouver Lookout$17.30 (CA$23.88), tax includedCheck Availability168 m deck at Harbour Centre, one block from Waterfront station.
- Flyover in Vancouver$26.80 (CA$37) online, $28.30 (CA$39) at the gateCheck AvailabilityInside Canada Place. Rebranded from FlyOver Canada; the old domain now redirects.
- Science World$27.20 (CA$37.50)At Main Street-Science World station. The Dome Theatre is closed until further notice.
- Vancouver Art Gallery$25.40 (CA$35), or $21.00 (CA$29) for BC residentsYouth and children free. Pricing is resident and non-resident, not senior and student.
- Museum of Anthropology at UBC$18.83 (CA$26)Half price on Thursdays after 5 p.m. Monday closures start on 15 October.
- VanDusen Botanical Gardenthree seasonal rate bands, pre-GSTRate seasons flip on 1 April and 1 November, and so do the hours.
- Bloedel Conservatory$6.88 (CA$9.50) plus GSTFlat price year-round, inside the free Queen Elizabeth Park.
- Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden$11.59 (CA$16)In Chinatown. The free public park next door is a different place with the same name.
Free 8 pins
- Stanley ParkfreeFree to enter and always open; the parking is paid year-round and there is no shuttle.
- The Seawall, Stanley Park stretchfree28 km end to end, split into a walking lane on the water side and a wheeling lane inside.
- English Bay BeachfreeExcluded from the beaches where drinking is allowed, unlike seven others in the city.
- Kitsilano Beachfree; pool $5.75 (CA$7.93) pre-taxThe saltwater pool runs a season that closed on 13 September in 2026.
- Queen Elizabeth ParkfreeThe highest point in the city, with the paid conservatory at the top of it.
- Canada PlacefreeCruise terminal, convention centre and float-plane dock. The Discovery Centre is closed until further notice.
- Lynn Canyon suspension bridgefree50 m above Lynn Creek, run by the District of North Vancouver, and free since 1912. Bus 228 from Lonsdale Quay.
- Lighthouse ParkfreeOld-growth forest and the Point Atkinson light on the West Vancouver shore.
Food and markets 9 pins
- Granville Island Public Marketfree to enterCheck AvailabilityDaily 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., later Thursday to Sunday in summer. Closed Mondays in January only.
- Richmond Night Market$5.07 (CA$7)24 April to 20 September 2026, Friday to Sunday evenings. Tickets on the gate only, one block from Bridgeport station.
- Main Street Brewing, Brewery Creektastings from $64.57 on the guided walkCheck AvailabilityThe start of the Mount Pleasant brewery cluster, about 1 km of taprooms.
- AnnaLenaMICHELIN One StarAlso 12th in Canada's 100 Best 2026, the highest-ranked Vancouver kitchen on that list.
- Kissa TantoMICHELIN One StarJapanese-Italian in Chinatown, 15th in Canada's 100 Best 2026.
- Sumibiyaki ArashiMICHELIN One StarA 14-seat charcoal counter on East Broadway, and the only starred restaurant whose neighbourhood MICHELIN states.
- Published on MainMICHELIN One StarThe cheapest of the four double-listed names, at MICHELIN's $$$ band.
- Dynasty SeafoodRestaurant of the Year 2026Vancouver Magazine's 2026 Restaurant of the Year, and Cantonese seafood rather than fine dining.
- Phnom PenhMICHELIN Bib GourmandOne of four Vietnamese Bib Gourmands in the city, at the $$ band.
Neighbourhoods 7 pins
- Gastownfree to walkThe oldest commercial core, and the steam clock. Its east end meets the Downtown Eastside at Carrall Street.
- Chinatownfree to walkA national historic site, designated in 2011, with the Millennium Gate at its west end.
- Yaletownfree to walkWarehouse brick on the north side of False Creek, about seven minutes from the seawall.
- West End and Davie Villagefree to walkThe dense wedge between downtown and Stanley Park, and the cheapest walkable base in the city.
- Mount Pleasant and Main Streetfree to walkBreweries, independent retail, and the densest cluster of MICHELIN-listed kitchens in Vancouver.
- Kitsilanofree to walkBeach-facing on the south side of English Bay, with the buses west to UBC.
- North Vancouver and Lonsdale QuaySeaBus $2.06 (CA$2.85) off-peakTwelve minutes across the inlet, and the base for all three North Shore mountains.
Day trips 11 pins
- Whistler$79.70 (CA$110) summer lift ticketCheck AvailabilityNo public transit runs here; coaches take about 1 h 45 min. The village shuttle is free year-round.
- Sea to Sky Gondola$53.60 (CA$73.95) online, $59.40 (CA$81.95) at the windowCheck AvailabilityClosed 9 to 26 November for maintenance. Squamish is an hour from downtown by coach.
- Shannon Fallsfree335 m, the third highest waterfall in British Columbia, on a 350 m trail from the highway.
- Stawamus ChieffreeFirst Peak is 1.5 km with 540 m of gain. Climbing routes close roughly 15 March to 31 July for nesting falcons.
- Snug Cove, Bowen Island$9.02 (CA$12.45) return ferryQuoted as a return fare, unlike the Victoria route. The village is at the dock.
- Stevestonvillage free; cannery $10.68 (CA$14.75)Free admission at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery from 19 June to 7 September under the Canada Strong Pass.
- Deep Cove and Quarry RockfreeThe District says the car parks fill early and stay full all day. Buses 212 and 211 serve it; tour buses are banned.
- Cypress Mountainpark free; shuttle $25.40 (CA$35) returnThe Cypress Coach Lines shuttle is cash only and must be booked ahead. Summer parking is free.
- Mount Seymourpark free; shuttle $10.87 (CA$15) returnSeason 11 December 2026 to 4 April 2027. Winter tyres are mandatory on the road from 1 October.
- The Butchart Gardens$32.10 (CA$44.25) summer, tax includedCheck AvailabilityNo senior or student discount, and closed 25 December and 18 to 31 January.
- Victoriaferry $15.21 (CA$21) each wayCheck AvailabilityThe crossing is 1 h 35 min and a 5% fuel surcharge is added to every fare.
Prices are the official adult rate published by each venue and read on 8 September 2026, converted at CA$1 to US$0.7244; several carry GST on top, which the pin says. Coordinates for the attractions come from each page's own key facts and from verified Wikidata items; the neighbourhood, restaurant and day-trip pins were located from their street address or place name through OpenStreetMap, because no official Vancouver page publishes coordinates for them. Restaurants appear only where MICHELIN, Canada's 100 Best or the Vancouver Magazine awards name them.
Getting Between the Clusters
The map divides into five groups of pins, and the only question that matters is how long each takes from downtown and what it costs to get there. Fares are TransLink's and the operators' own, effective 1 July 2026 for transit and 16 June 2026 for the ferries.
| Cluster | How you get there | Time from downtown | Fare | What is pinned there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The downtown peninsula | On foot, or any 1-zone fare | 0 to 25 minutes | $2.06 (CA$2.85) stored value | Stanley Park, the seawall, Canada Place, the Lookout, Gastown, Chinatown, Yaletown, the West End |
| The North Shore | SeaBus then bus 236 or 228, or the free Capilano shuttle | 25 to 45 minutes | 1 zone after 6:30 p.m., 3 zones on a weekday morning | Grouse, Capilano, Lynn Canyon, Deep Cove, Cypress, Mount Seymour, Lighthouse Park |
| False Creek and the south side | Canada Line, the False Creek ferries, or bus | 10 to 25 minutes | 1 zone, plus the ferry operators' own fares | Granville Island, Science World, Mount Pleasant, Queen Elizabeth Park, VanDusen |
| Kitsilano and UBC | Bus 4, 14 or 84 over the bridges | 15 to 35 minutes | 1 zone throughout | Kitsilano Beach, the Museum of Anthropology |
| Richmond and the airport | Canada Line south | 18 to 26 minutes | $4.71 (CA$6.50) AddFare only when leaving YVR | The night market, Steveston |
| The Sea to Sky corridor and the island | Coach, or ferry plus bus | 1 hour to Squamish, 13 hours round trip to Victoria | Coach from CA$32 one way; ferry $15.21 (CA$21) each way | Squamish, the gondola, Whistler, Victoria, Bowen Island |
Everything is a 1-zone fare after 6:30 p.m. on weekdays and all day at weekends and on statutory holidays, and buses are 1 zone at all times. Getting around has the full fare table.
How to Read This Map
The five colours answer five different questions. Dark green is the ticketed layer: 11 places where you will hand over money at a gate, each pin carrying the official adult price rather than a platform price, so you can see immediately whether a bundled tour is a saving or a markup. Leaf green is the free layer, eight places that cost nothing, and it is the most useful filter on a wet day or a thin budget.
Red is food, and it is deliberately short: it holds only the two markets and the restaurants a published guide names. Blue is the seven neighbourhoods, which are areas rather than addresses, so the pin sits at the centre of each one. Brown is everything outside the city, from a 25-minute bus to a 13-hour ferry day.
Two things the map cannot tell you. The first is opening hours, which change by season on almost every pin here and belong on the pages rather than in a popup: VanDusen flips its rates and hours on 1 April and 1 November, the Museum of Anthropology starts closing on Mondays from 15 October, and the Sea to Sky Gondola shuts for maintenance from 9 to 26 November. The second is whether a price includes tax.
Vancouver quotes admission before tax more often than not, so a pin reading "plus GST" is 5% short of what you will pay.
Where a pin has a matching tour card on this page, the popup offers it, and where it does not, the popup still links the page that compares the ways in. That is the honest way round: the map is an orientation tool, and the decision about whether a ticket, a combination or a guided version is worth it belongs on the tickets hub and on each attraction's own page.
The Shape of the City, in Four Sentences
Downtown Vancouver is a peninsula with water on three sides and Stanley Park filling the tip, which is why so many pins cluster in the top left of the map. Everything north of the water on the map is the North Shore, reached by the SeaBus in 12 minutes or by bridge, and it holds all three mountains and both suspension bridges. Everything south of False Creek is the residential city, where the neighbourhoods, the breweries and most of the restaurants are.
Everything beyond the frame, and the brown pins that reach it, is British Columbia: an hour of highway to Squamish, two to Whistler, a ferry crossing to Victoria.
The City of Vancouver divides itself into 22 distinct areas, which is why two guides can draw the boundary of Yaletown or the West End in different places and both be defensible. The seven neighbourhood pins here are placed at the centre of each area as OpenStreetMap defines it, and none of them should be read as a boundary. The city sits on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, using the City's own spellings.
For the shape of a first visit, start from visiting Vancouver, Canada.
The Pins You Can Book From Here
Seven cards for the pins that carry a ticket worth comparing, so the map popup has somewhere to send you. Prices, ratings and durations are the platform's own, checked in Q3 2026.
from $57.10
Top rated Vancouver: Capilano Suspension Bridge Park Ticket
Dated admission to the park itself: the 137 metre bridge, the Treetops walkways and the glass Cliffwalk, with free shuttles from downtown included in the price. Allow two to three hours and go early, the queue builds by late morning.
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from $67.80
Grouse Mountain Skyride Admission Ticket
The mountain's own ticket: return gondola plus the grizzly habitat, lumberjack show and Birds in Motion in summer, or snowshoe trails and the skating pond in winter. Ziplines, the ropes course and the coaster are charged separately.
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from $16.38
Vancouver: Entry Ticket for the Vancouver Lookout
One-time entry to the 168 metre observation deck at Harbour Centre, reached by an exterior glass elevator in 40 seconds. The ticket is valid for a single visit, so pick a clear day and go late for the light.
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from $37.73
Vancouver Aquarium: Skip-the-Line Ticket
Skip-the-ticket-line entry to the aquarium in Stanley Park, with the 4D theatre and Wet Lab included and animal encounters charged separately. Two to four hours covers the galleries, and the site is cashless.
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from $22.09
Vancouver: Flyover Flying Theatre Experience
A 30 minute flying theatre at Canada Place: a pre-show, then a motion seat in front of a 52 foot spherical screen with wind, mist and scent effects. Not for anyone with heart trouble or a fear of heights.
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from $118.91
Top rated Vancouver: Granville Island Market Tour with Tastings
Two hours behind the stalls at Granville Island Public Market with cured meats, cheeses, breads and sweets from the vendors themselves. The one catch is the policy: tickets are non-refundable and changes need 10 days notice.
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from $123.34
Certified by GetYourGuide From Vancouver: Whistler, Sea to Sky Gondola & Shannon Falls
Ten hours covering Shannon Falls, the Sea to Sky Gondola with 90 minutes at the Habrich Ridge summit, and free time in Whistler Village. The gondola ticket and hotel pickup are included, meals and tips are not.
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from $56.34
Top rated Squamish: Sea to Sky Gondola Admission Ticket
The attraction's own ticket, without a tour attached: a return ride to 885 metres above Howe Sound, the Sky Pilot Suspension Bridge and two interpretive loop trails at the top. Cabins are step-free and hold eight.
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from $173.71
Top rated Vancouver: Victoria, Gulf Islands Cruise, & Butchart Gardens
Thirteen hours from downtown to Victoria and back with the ferry crossing, Butchart Gardens entry and about two hours each at the gardens and in the city. Pickup runs 30 to 60 minutes before the stated departure.
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from $66.09
Vancouver to Victoria: Ferry with Bus Transfer
Not a tour but a transfer: one coach from downtown Vancouver, onto the ferry and off again at Capital City Station behind the Empress. Four hours in total with the ferry fare included and no commentary.
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from $64.57
Top rated Vancouver: Craft Beer Culture & Tasting Tour
Three hours in Brewery Creek with 12 tastings across three breweries, led by a Cicerone certified guide and including a cask ale poured the old way. Total walking is about 1 km, and photo ID is checked.
Check AvailabilityPrices, ratings and details are the platform's own, checked in Q3 2026; dollar figures are the listed prices — the platform bills in your account's currency.
Turn the Map Into Days
Three pages that take these pins and put them in an order.
Everything worth doing, ranked
The same places as a ranked list with the time each one needs: things to do in Vancouver.
With official pricesThe eleven day trips
Every brown pin on this map with its transport, its season and its cost: the day trips hub.
One hour to thirteenPlan the trip around them
How many days, when to come and what to book: the plan hub, and the food layer on where to eat.
Twenty planning pagesVancouver Map: Questions
Is there a printable or PDF version of this Vancouver map?
No, and deliberately: the prices on it change and a PDF would age badly. The text list under the map holds every pin, its price and its page, so it prints and reads on a phone with no signal. For navigation, tap Google Maps on any pin and let your own phone route you.
How accurate are the pins on this map of Vancouver attractions?
The ticketed sights use the coordinates published on each attraction's own page here, taken from verified Wikidata items or derived from the street address. The neighbourhoods, restaurants and day-trip pins were resolved from a place name or street address through OpenStreetMap, because no official Vancouver page publishes coordinates for them. Neighbourhood pins mark a centre, never a boundary.
Which places on the map are free?
Eleven of the 46, once you count the free day-trip pins: Stanley Park, the seawall, English Bay, Kitsilano Beach, Queen Elizabeth Park, Canada Place, Lynn Canyon, Lighthouse Park, Shannon Falls, the Stawamus Chief and Deep Cove. Filter to the leaf-green chip to see them alone.
Why are restaurants on a tourist map at all?
Because they are the pins most guides get wrong. Every food pin here appears in the MICHELIN Guide Vancouver, Canada's 100 Best 2026 or the Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards 2026, and the card says which. Nothing is pinned because somebody liked it. The reasoning and the full lists.
How far outside the city do the pins go?
As far as Whistler, 1 hour 45 minutes by coach, and Victoria, which is a 1 hour 35 minute ferry crossing plus buses at each end and a 13-hour day on the guided versions like the Butchart Gardens and Gulf Islands trip. The cluster table gives the time and fare for each group of pins.
Do the prices on the pins include tax?
Only where the venue says so. The Vancouver Lookout publishes a tax-inclusive price, and Butchart Gardens states that its rates include tax; Capilano states outright that park rates are subject to GST, and Bloedel and VanDusen publish pre-tax rates. Where a venue publishes no tax statement at all, the pin does not invent one.
Walking the Map
Three street-level walks through the areas most of these pins sit in, which is the closest thing to standing at each one before you go.
Vancouver Walking Tour: Stanley Park, Kitsilano, Downtown and Gastown
The four areas that hold most of the downtown pins, in one continuous walk.
Video: Prowalk ToursDowntown and Gastown Walking Tour
The blue neighbourhood pins at eye level, including the Gastown blocks.
Video: Lvfree AdventuresVancouver 4K Walking Tour with Captions
A wider circuit of the peninsula, useful for judging distances between pins.
Video: HP Walking ToursVideos load from YouTube only when you press play.
Reviewed Q3 2026 (July–September 2026); next review Q4 2026. Prices, hours and terms are set by the venue or operator and confirmed at checkout.
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