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Consider Yourself a Vancouverite? Not Until You've Hiked These Five Trails
Posted by: Matthew Inouye
Posted on: July 8th, 2019
Consider yourself a Vancouverite? Not until you've hiked, walked or ran the five essential Metro Vancouver hiking trails from the Grouse Grind, Dog Mountain Trail up Mount Seymour, the Stanley Park seawall, the Foreshore Trail at the Pacific Spirit Regional Park; and the always popular, Quarry Rock in Deep Cove.
You shout "Thank you" when you exit a bus, you're willing to wait an hour in line for Sunday hangover brunch, you know where the best donuts are (Honey's or Duffins), have a list of at least two solid dim sum restaurants and one great ramen shop with a rich broth that doesn't have the lunch line-up and finally, you remember where you were when the roof came off BC Place.
Quarry Rock in the Morning Taking in the view of the Indian Arm and Belcarra from Quarry Rock on a cloudy morning.
But you can't consider yourself a true Vancouverite until you've:
- Strapped into snowshoes out to the viewpoint on Dog Mountain
- Had a beer on a patio atop Grouse Mountain after huffing past sweaty, jeans clad tourists up 2900 steps
- Jogged around Stanley Park
- Walked along the sandy, pebble and shell-laden Foreshore Trail past Wreck Beach
- Battled for the last parking spot in Deep Cove before hiking out to Quarry Rock to have a sandwich with the best of them.
Hike all of these trails in the new "Vancouver Special" Hiking Tour. If you hike all five of these trails, you'll earn a Mountain Guru tour badge!
West from Mount Seymour A view West from Mount Seymour into Lynn Valley
Mountain Guru has curated unique collections of hiking trails including the Vancouver Special, Stairclimbers and Ultra Distance Loops. Each tour has three or more trails that fit a particular theme to help you get the most of the Metro Vancouver outdoors! Hike all trails in a tour and earn the Tour Badge!
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