British Columbia & Canadian Rockies - British Columbia (Chapter)

This is the British Columbia chapter from Lonely Planet's British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies guidebook.

Visitors to British Columbia (BC) are never short of superlatives when writing their postcards home. It's hard not to be moved by towering mountain ranges, wildlife-packed forests and uncountable kilometers of pristine coastline.

• stretch your legs on a seawall stroll around Vancouver’s Stanley Park then enjoy a relaxing sunset at Third Beach
• maps
• surf up a storm (or just watch a storm) in Tofino on Vancouver Island’s wild west coast
• transport
• slurp some celebrated tipples on an ever-winding Okanagan Valley winery tour
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Vancouver & around, Lower Mainland, Burnaby, Richmond & Steveston, Sea to Sky Highway, Squamish & around, Garibaldi Provincial Park, Brandywine Falls Provincial Park, Whistler, Sunshine Coast, Gibsons, Roberts Creek, Sechelt, Powell River, Vancouver Island, Victoria, Cowichan Valley, Nanaimo, Parksville & Qualicum, Port Alberni, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Tofino, Ucluelet, Denman & Hornby Islands, Comox Valley, Campbell River, Strathcona Provincial Park, Southern Gulf Islands, Salt Spring Island, North & South Pender Islands, Saturna Island, Mayne Island, Galiano Island, Fraser & Thompson Valleys, Ec Manning Provincial Park, Fraser River Canyon, Kamloops & around, Okanagan Valley, Osoyoos, Oliver, Penticton, Kelowna, Big White Ski Resort, Vernon, The Kootenays & the Rockies, Revelstoke, Mt Revelstoke National Park, Glacier National Park, Golden, Yoho National Park, Mt Assiniboine Provincial Park, Kootenay National Park, Radium Hot Springs, Fernie, Kimberley, Cranbrook, Rossland, Nelson, Cariboo, Chilcotin & Coast, Williams Lake to Prince George, Barkerville & around, Wells Gray Provincial Park, Chilcotin: Highway 20, Bella Coola Valley, Prince Rupert, Haida Gwaii, Prince George, Stewart-Cassiar Highway and Alaska Highway.