Most trails and parks have now re-opened, with a few exceptions listed below. If you’d like some suggestions on hikes that are nice for social distancing, please see our post here: Where to Hike during COVID-19 around Vancouver.
At this time, whether you choose to get outside onto the trails is your personal choice. However, for those choosing to go on the trails, for your safety and the safety of others, please practice strict social distancing. This is the best way to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.
This means, go hiking with people that you live with. On the trails, stay at least two meters away from everyone else at all times. If hikes have things like ladders and ropes, avoid those hikes, as germs may live on those surfaces. And of course, continue to wash your hands frequently.
You may also want to choose hikes that aren’t typically busy. In our hiking trail database, you can use the search filter to search for hikes in your desired city, and select ‘moderate’ or ‘low’ for the ‘Trail Traffic’ filter.
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Current Park and Trail Closures around Vancouver
Last update: 2:12 pm, Oct 7, 2020
Here are the current COVID-19 related park and trail closures that we are aware of. If you become aware of other closures (or re-openings), please email us at info [at] outdoorvancouver [dot] ca or comment at the bottom of this page. We will be updating this page as new trail closures are announced, or as trails reopen.
BC Parks
The parks that required Day-Use passes no longer require them as of Oct 1. The exceptions are Garibaldi Park the Stawamus Chief, which requires a day-use pass until Oct 2.
More information on day-use passes can be found here.
Most BC Parks are now open. However, there are a few local parks still closed until further notice :
- Joffre Lakes Provincial Park
- Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park (Othello Tunnels)
- The Stein Valley Nlaka’pamux Heritage Park
- Tetrahedron Provincial Park
See more details from BC Parks here and a list of open/closed parks is here.
North Vancouver
- Quarry Rock– The trail is currently closed.
- Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge – The bridge is currently closed, but the park is open.
- The Grouse Grind is open but closes at 5:00pm now due to daylight hours.
Squamish
- Sea To Sky Gondola and the Sea to Summit Trail remain closed.
- The Sea to Sky region is asking visitors to stay away during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
BC Recreation Sites and Trails
RSTBC is temporarily closing some recreation facilities and suspending services at many recreation sites and trails across BC.
See here for a full list of closures.
Lighthouse Park and Whytcliffe are both open, as are their parking lots.
– June 23, 2020
Thanks, I’ve updated the list!
Will tennis courts in parks be opening?
I’m wondering if you can post about what’s open. I’m having a difficult time determining where I can go since all the trails I used to go on or roads to them are closed. Can you be clear on where we CAN go? I think that would be really helpful. I’m not savvy in the loop holes here.
I’m wondering if you can post about what’s open. I’m having a difficult time determining where I can go since all the trails I used to go on or roads to them are closed. Can you be clear on where we CAN go? I think that would be really helpful. I’m not savvy in the loop holes here. Alternatively, a filter on your database with closures would be great. Thank you.
Agreed. It would be amazing to know what is actually open for those of us that want to hike, but that don’t have an entire database of parks/trails in our brains.
All trails are open unless specified in the list above. This includes trails in all BC Parks but they are set to open on May 14.
I fully agree Natasha! While this page is helpful, I just want to know where I CAN go, so it’d be very helpful to have a page just on what’s open.
There’s literally hundreds (a thousand?) of hikes and only dozens of them are off-limits at the moment… It would be futile to try and list them all here.
Your best bet is to use our hike finder (https://www.outdoorvancouver.ca/vancouver-hiking-trail-guides/) where you can filter down by the city you want to hike, if you want to bring your dog, if you want a waterfall, etc. and find a hike that you want to do. Then reference this page to see if its on the list of closed places.
For BC Parks, most are open now except in the lower mainland (not including Golden Ears, Murrin and a few others).
Almost every Metro Vancouver Regional Park is open.
Most other places are open, though some have closed their parking lots or have limited access by municipal by-laws.
If you want a specific recommendation, please comment here with what city are you in, what skill level/ difficulty you want, or what kind of hike you want to do and I’ll do my best to give you some suggestions.
Alright I relented and wrote another post on some suggested open trails here :)
Hopefully it’s helpful for generating a few ideas of places to go!
https://www.outdoorvancouver.ca/where-to-hike-in-vancouver-during-covid-19/
Whytecliff Park and Lighthouse Parks in West van are NOT closed.
Whytecliff Park parking lot is closed and
Lighthouse Park parking lot is closed.
washrooms being maintained!