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John Lawson Park
This park features a gravel and sand beach, paved walkways, picnic facilities, and a pier. Fishing is permitted from the pier, but a license is required.
Address: Foot of 17th Street West Vancouver BC
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Panorama Park
One of a handful of small parks in the Deep Cove area of North Vancouver, Panorama Park affords views of the scenic Indian Arm inlet and the Deep Cove Marina while offering visitors a small beach, barbecues and a children's play area.
Address: Deep Cove North Vancouver BC CAN
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English Bay Sunset Beach
Just across the street from these beaches lies the most heavily populated corner of Canada. Is it any wonder that these beaches are always packed with sun worshippers and curio seekers who hit the end of Denman and decided to stare? At night (well, four nights in particular) this is ground zero for the Vancouver Symphony of Fire. Chances are, you've never been on a beach so crowded in your life. Get there early (like, by a few days) if you want a good seat. The closest thing to California you'll find in BC.
Address: Beach Ave Vancouver BC Canada
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Ambleside Park & Beach
The waterfront Ambleside Park is considered West Vancouver's most popular park. In addition to the beach and picnic areas, the park offers an outdoor pool, mini golf, playing fields and courts, sailing facilities and concessions. The park is located on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet, at the mouth of the Capilano River.
Address: 13th Street West Vancouver BC CAN
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Barnet Marine Park
Located on the Burrard Inlet, Barnet Marine Park offers ocean swimming, sunbathing, and crab fishing. Picnic tables and barbeques are provided, and change rooms, outdoor showers, and a concession stand are available in summer. A mill town at the turn of the century, this park still has some remnants of its early days.
Address: . Burnaby BC
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Wreck Beach
There's a certain air of the '60s about Wreck beach that hasn't worn off, even as subsequent generations seek to redefine Canada's most famous clothing optional beach in its own image. There's a certain anti-authority atmosphere, even as GVRD parks adopts the beach as its own, and even as police patrols have become routine (and not to bust denizens-not even the sex in pseudo-public places crowd-but to nail the perverts in the bushes watching the sex in pseudo-public places crowd...and to keep the banned substances consumption (including alcohol) in check). This is quite possibly Canada's most (in)famous beach, even if the majority of people even in Vancouver have never visited. Located along the southwest shore of Point Grey, just across the road and down the hill from the UBC museum of Anthropology. Not that there's any connection, mind you.
Address: Near Museum of Anthropology Vancouver BC Canada
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East Beach
The less hectic East Beach is a family-oriented area, complete with playgrounds, public restrooms, picnic areas, playing courts, and more. A promenade lines the beach, as well as an array of shops and places to eat.
Address: East end of White Rock BC CAN
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Crescent Beach Park
The namesake of South Surrey's affluent Crescent Beach neighbourhood is a sandy beach on Boundary Bay. Park amenities include a trail, washrooms and a picnic area. The trail connects the park to neighbouring Blackie Spit Park.
Address: 3124 McBride Avenue Surrey BC
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Lynn Canyon Park
Second only to Whytecliff for cliff diving, on weekends the rocky area north of the suspension bridge teems with people, from naked two-year-olds (and their accompanying parents) to mahnly men doing mahnly things like leaping from the cliffs near the falls. (Though cliff diving is discouraged here, it's not outlawed.) Because this area is comprised of loose round stones, be a dear and leave the glass bottles at home. (Broken glass and naked two year-olds is a bad combination.) Not really a beach as such, but you couldn't tell from the way people act around here. From suspension bridge, head upstream to first set of falls along trails on either side of Lynn Creek. The falls are tucked away behind a cliff, but you'll recognize the flat flood plain-like area of rocks and (on a sunny weekend) the plethora of people.
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Jericho, Lacarno and Spanish Banks Beaches
The power trio of beaches, an ironic metaphor considering Jericho's big moment in the (ahem) sun is the yearly Folk Fest. If Kits is where the beautiful people hang out, you'll find most everybody else along this stretch of beach, including religious nuts peddling their wares, sea kayakers plying the waves and a firebreathing entertainer clad only in silver thong, riding a unicycle along a rope held up by passers-by....well, I guess you had to be there. Located near UBC, these beaches crawl with twentysomething university students freed from endless Psych classes.
Address: NW Marine Drive Vancouver BC Canada
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Cates Park
As North Vancouver's largest waterfront park, Cates Park is a popular recreational area with picnic areas, public facilities, a boat launch and children's play areas. The park features 6 km (3.75 mi) of trails that pass through both forests and beaches, and afford numerous views of the Burrard and Indian Arm Inlets. Located on the southeastern tip of the North shore along Dollarton Highway.
Address: Dollarton Highway North Vancouver BC CAN
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Kitsilano Beach
The ultimate beach for the hedonistic, narcissistic, thong-clad throngs, Kits is the beach for body-builders, fast cars and babes wearing teeny-weeny bikinis and melanoma foundations. If Wreck is where people let it all hang, Kits is where they make it bulge. A great place to watch, but if you don't want to be watched, Kits is intimidating. Most of the parking for Kits beach is in the pay parking lots at the corner of Arbutus and Cornwall. Street parking is sketchy, but if you drive around for a few hours, your bound to find a spot somewhere.
Address: End of Yew Street Vancouer BC Canada
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English Bay Beach
The glass and concrete of Denman, Davie and Beach Avenue and the natural beauty of Stanley Park come crashing together on the shores of English Bay, one of the most delightfully schizophrenic convergences around. Is it any wonder that these beaches are always packed with sun worshippers and curio seekers who hit the end of Denman and decided to stare? Always busy but never rushed.
Address: Beach Avenue between Denman and Bidwell Streets Vancouver BC Canada
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White Rock Beach
Also known as West Beach, this beach is home to White Rock's historic 1,500-ft-long pier. Visitors and locals enjoy activities such as swimming, fishing, and windsurfing at this beach. The characteristic large white rock (which has become a sort of icon for the city) is also located here.
Address: . White Rock BC CAN
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Tower Beach
Clothing optional, without the preconceptions of Wreck Beach, Tower beach starts just around the corner from Spanish Banks and keeps going. At low tides it's possible to walk all the way around Point Grey to Wreck. Try this on a stormy day, when the beach is all but deserted. |
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Horseshoe Bay Park
Located between the Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal and the Sewell Marina, this is one of West Vancouver’s most highly used parks. Featured in the park are two totem poles and a 5000-pound cast-bronze propeller from a converted whaling ship, providing symbolic reminders of the park’s rich and varied history. The park also has a gravel beach and paved walking paths.
Address: . West Vancouver BC
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Whytecliff Park
Despite occasional bad water quality and eternal parking problems, Whytecliff remains one a favorite beach, (though waterfront park would be more accurate) because of its many moods. The rather rocky strip of shore that passes for the beach is usually packed, but there's always some uninhabited niche somewhere on the rocky cliffs that give the park its name. There are plenty of cliffs to jump off of, for big-time adrenaline rush, or to sit atop and contemplate the setting sun. The sheltered cove is great for swimming...when the algae isn't in bloom.
Address: 7000 block of Marine Drive West Vancouver BC Canada
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