📍 Only the Best 10 in Vancouver, BC

Grouse Grind. Locals call it "Mother Nature's Stairmaster" for good reason — roughly 2,830 steps climbing nearly 900 metres in nine-tenths of a mile, steep enough that some regulars time their ascent the way others track a gym personal best. Free to hike up; the gondola ride down costs extra unless you're willing to descend the same brutal stairs, which almost nobody chooses to do twice.

Stanley Park. At roughly 400 hectares, genuinely larger than New York's Central Park, wrapped by an unbroken 8.8-kilometre seawall that's been ranked among the best urban walks in the world by outlets that rank such things. Free to enter and walk; rental bikes at the entrance are the common way to cover the full seawall loop, with mountain views across Burrard Inlet visible for most of the northern stretch.