When the weather is fine, Needle Peak is one of the best accessible hikes within a few hours drive from the city. There are amazing views...

Bellingham is an adorably friendly little student city just the other side of the USA border. You can easily travel down for a rainy day...

Less than two hours drive from Vancouver the family-oriented mountain resort of Sasquatch offers an 'old-school BC' snow weekend for a...

Salt Spring is the most frequently visited and famous Gulf Island and a fantastic weekend getaway from the lower mainland. Perfect place...

These spectacular horizontal waterfalls are one of the Sunshine Coast's hidden gems. The Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park is an inlet...

After you've hiked and biked your way around Garibaldi, a couple of nights in Pemberton might be just what you need to decouple from city...

On the northeastern edge of Vancouver Island the one hundred kilometre Johnstone Strait is a glacial carved ocean passage abundant with...

Strathcona Provincial Park is located in the middle of Vancouver Island and the oldest provincial park. It is a vast mountain wilderness...

Wells Gray Provincial Park is a behemoth wilderness area with out-of-this-world waterfalls and wildlife. Access is via the sleepy town of...

Protection (or pirate) Island is a one and half kilometre paddle or short ferry ride from Nanaimo’s Departure Bay. The Mayor of Nanaimo,...

Often overlooked, the friendly interior city of Kamloops is one of British Columbia's top spots for weekend adventure sports. The...

Visiting a freezing cold city seems like something anyone spending a year in Canada should try. In early winter when BC is in a state of...

When I discovered there was a dry desert in Canada I was dumbfounded. On the border of Washington State in the rain shadow of the rocky...

The Okanagan Valley is hard to beat for a summer road trip. Mountains, lakes, wineries, fishing and local fare. Everything is well within...

This is on my to-do-list and I'm looking forward to the experience but I thought it pertinent to mention here in case you are arriving...

Mrs Buchart was an shrewd entrepreneur. She moved from the freezing blizzards of Ontario to quarry limestone on Vancouver Island in the...

Two and a half hours flight south from BC brings you to the most populous state in America where the film industry and today's pop...

Campbell River is not always high on people's wish list.. it should be! This small town is cutely carved into the side of a valley...

With more than double Vancouver's population, the 'GTA' (greater Toronto area) is the financial and cultural heart of modern Canada....

The biggest city in the coffee-lovin Pacific Northwest. Vancouver's brasher bigger brother makes a memorable weekend with plenty of...