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These Vancouver day trips are accessible by public transit and bicycle.
Find quiet, solitude, wildlife and more at one of Vancouver’s many nearby parks. Avoid the traffic, ditch the car: The following Vancouver day trips are accessible by public transit and bicycle.
Pitt Meadows
By Larry Cowan, Nature Vancouver
Grant Narrows Regional Park lies at the end of a 15.5 km flat cycle ride through wide expanses of diked farmlands and nature reserves.
By David Cook, Nature Vancouver
Southlands is a semi-rural neighbourhood at the foot of Blenheim St. in the Point Grey area of Vancouver.
More day trips like these can be found in the book Parks and Nature Places Around Vancouver, by Nature Vancouver (Harbour Publishing, $24.95), edited by Alison Parkinson.
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