Yes, you can walk over the Granville Street Bridge in Vancouver.
The walk, including bridge approaches is approximately 1 kilometer and offers views of downtown Vancouver, False Creek, and English Bay. Sidewalks on both sides are narrow, and may be shared with cyclists.
To reach Granville Island on foot, the best approach is to use the bridge’s east sidewalk, but use the crosswalk at the end to stay on Granville Street. Further along there will be steps on the left leading down to Granville Loop Park and from there walk back under the bridge towards Granville Island.
For Vancouver Canucks hockey games at Rogers Arena, doors open 1 hour before puck drop. Executive suites are open 2 hours prior to the start of the game.
Vancouver’s Gastown Steam Clock was steam powered but now uses an electric motor to wind the clock mechanism and steam to produce a tuneful whistle every quarter hour.
The first Starbucks in Canada opened in Vancouver on March 1, 1987 at the Waterfront Seabus Skytrain Station. It was the first Starbucks store outside Seattle and the company’s first international location.
The Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver is named for The Lions, a pair of pointed peaks along the North Shore Mountains overlooking the city. The bridge’s official name is the First Narrows Bridge.
The Grouse Grind trailhead is near Grouse Mountain’s Valley Station Skyride aerial tramway terminal at 6400 Nancy Greene Way, North Vancouver, British Columbia.
The nearest hotels to the Abbotsford Centre are the Best Western Bakerview Inn and the Super 8 by Wyndham which are neighbouring hotels located 2.5 kilometres away (5 minutes by car or 30 minutes on foot) on Sumas Way, Abbotsford, British Columbia.
Reality TV star Gabe Rygaard was killed in a car accident on US-101 near Port Angeles, Washington on September 16th, 2016, aged 45. Rygaard had previously appeared on seasons two through nine of the History Channel’s reality TV show Ax Men which chronicled the activities of his family-owned logging business.
