You will be within an easy 5 minute walk of: The shops, coffee hoses, live music venues and bars of Main Street, Queen Elizabeth Park, the 2010 Olympic Curling facility, Riley Park Community Center and Vancouver Racquets Club.
15 – 20 minute drive from: Vancouver International Airport, Ballantyne Cruise Ship Pier, Vancouver Convention Center, University of British Columbia, Wreck Beach, English Bay, Stanley Park, Vancouver Aquarium, Pacific Center Mall, GM Place, BC Place, Gastown, Chinatown, Science World. For culturally minded guests, Vancouver has world class theatre, music and arts including the UBC museum of Anthropology and Vancouver Art gallery.
For sports minded, we have great cycling, hiking, kayaking and golf all within a short distance and a 40 minute drive to 3 local ski areas such as Cypress Mountain, which will host the 2010 Olympic freestyle, moguls and snowboard events. We are a 2 hr drive to Whistler/Blackcomb, the number one ski resort in North America and host to all the main 2010 Olympic skiing events and 1 hour drive to world class Rock Climbing and Mountain Biking and Wind Surfing in Squamish. We are a half hour drive to the world famous North Shore Mountain Bike trails. For those who enjoy watching sports, we have professional soccer, hockey, baseball and football teams in Vancouver.
Your hosts are Mark (a winemaker) and Leanne, who are well traveled; enjoy good food, wine and the great outdoors. We picked this neighborhood to build our dream home and settle down and we know that you will enjoy it as well. Shopping tours, advice on the sights and sounds of the city as well as guiding to the great outdoors are available upon request.
Other Activities:
Boating, kayaking, Shopping, Snowboarding