If you are looking to cycle over a variety of terrain while enjoying very different locations, this is for you. Expect several downhills and uphills thus making it more suitable for intermediate-level cyclists. Allow 4 to 5 hours with stops along the way. The 28 to 41 km allows for options along the way.
Main Features starting from Production Way Station going clockwise
- Brunette River Greenway
- Hume Park – Read about its interesting history here
- Sapperton with all its amenities and restaurants – Find out how Saperton gets its name here
- Columbia St. Greenway with options
- +3.2 km. Sapperton Landing Park Greenway
- +2.2 km Glenbrook Ravine and Queens Park (involves climbing)
- Penitentiary frontage: Learn about its history, buildings, grounds, and Woodland School
- Westminster Pier Park – Find out why it is nicknamed ‘the Royal City’Â here
- Westminster Quay – with amenities and restaurants
- BC Parkway out of New Westminster and in Burnaby
- Burnaby Foreshore Park and Greenway (can be skipped -8 km)
- Byrne Creek Trail
- BC Parkway towards Metrotown
- Deer Lake
- Burnaby Lake South Shore – known as the freeway trail – between the freeway and the lake
This full-featured loop takes in the Musqueam Southlands, Pacific Spirit Park, Spanish Banks, Jericho Beach, Kitsilano, and Vanier Park, Allow a good 5 to six hours for this great journey.  Note that the Canada Line Skytrain Station at Marine Drive is right on the route.
Colored tracks:
Blue –Â The Main Track – about 35 km
Red – Add features – in this case, indigenous sculptures and murals are featured – add 10 km
Purple – additional cycling route – add 5km
Brown – hiking or walking only or because of the steep grades – the shoreline trail is up to 5 km of walking.
Parking – it is best to park outside the UBC campus when the university is in sesseion.
This walking loop takes in Pacific Spirit Regional Park including Wreck Beach with its towering cliffs. It also takes in a few campus features such as the new Reconciliation regarding Resicential Schools Haida Totem Pole and other Totems. The whole loop is an amazing natural setting that takes advantage of the majestic coastal forest and seashore of the UBC Endownment Lands. Â Along the seashore there a couple of WWII bunkers to distract. Â Be prepared for lenghty stairways up and down the cliffs. Â Expect nudists between trail 3 and 6 which can be mainly avoided by following the magenta routing through UBC Campus. Completing this whole loop will likely take about 3.5 to 4.5 hours.
Richmond is becoming a greenway mecca. Â This extraordinary loop is a complete greenway featuring the Salish Sea foreshore banks, a whole fisheries heritage area along the south arm of the Fraser, great eateries, and a whole abandoned railway corridor to close the loop to the north arm of the Fraser River. Â The rail corridor is best seen during the summer when the vegetation has really taken root. Â And, there is absolutely no climbing involved. Â Allow 4 to 5 hours and more allowing some time visiting in the heritage sites.
This is a walking loop that takes in Brae Island Regional Park and a heritage walk through Fort Langley. Brae Island along with MacMillan Island sits in the Fraser River and the trail allows for short walks to the river’s edge. Â This relatively short walk allows time to visit the Fort itself along with the Centennial and Auto Museum. Also the walk passes by a new neighbourhood along the Fraser, a former major mill site and the mouth of the Salmon River, a past inland route for the fur trade. Â The transformed train station museum adds interest and there is a superb view of a picturesque small heritage white church on the Kwantlen Reserve across the Bedford Channel of the Fraser River viewed from the Langley Marine Park. Â Allow about 2.5 hours for the walk itself knowing that you will want to spend additional time visiting in Fort Langley along with taking advantage of the shops in this artisan community.
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