Arbutus Ridge
Arbutus Ridge is an affluent residential neighbourhood in Vancouver's West Side.
Arbutus Ridge is an affluent residential neighbourhood in Vancouver's West Side. It is bordered by 16th Avenue in the north, 41st Avenue in the south, Mackenzie Street in the west, and East Boulevard in the east. The neighbourhood is characterized by larger than average lot sizes, with stately homes on tree-lined streets.
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Worth seeing in and around Arbutus Ridge
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Vancouver Maritime Museum
The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a maritime museum devoted to presenting the maritime history of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the Canadian Arctic. Opened in 1959 as a Vancouver centennial project, it is located within Vanier Park just west of False Creek on the Vancouver waterfront.
3 km · maritime museum · Wikipedia - 02VanDusen Botanical Garden
VanDusen Botanical Garden is a botanical garden in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the Shaughnessy neighborhood. It is located at the northwest corner of 37th Avenue and Oak Street.
3.6 km · botanical garden in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada · Wikipedia - 03Marine Building
The Marine Building is a skyscraper located at 355 Burrard Street in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada near the Financial District. Completed in 1930, at the time of its opening it was the city's tallest skyscraper and it is listed among the best Art Deco buildings in the world.
2.2 km · skyscraper in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 04Jericho Beach
Jericho Beach a Vancouver beach, is located west of the seaside neighbourhood of Kitsilano. It is surrounded by Jericho Beach Park, a grassy area with a pond, which is a picnic destination.
2.1 km · beach in British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 05Ben Franklin
The Ben Franklin mesoscaphe, also known as the Grumman/Piccard PX-15, is a crewed underwater submersible, built in 1968. It was the brainchild of explorer and inventor Jacques Piccard.
3 km · American scientific submarine, now a museum ship in Canada · Wikipedia - 06Burrard Bridge
The Burrard Bridge is a four-lane, Art Deco style, steel truss bridge constructed between 1930 and 1932 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The high, five-part bridge on four piers spans False Creek, connecting downtown Vancouver with Kitsilano via connections to Burrard Street on both ends.
3.4 km · bridge across False Creek in Vancouver, British Columbia · Wikipedia - 07Museum of Vancouver
The Museum of Vancouver is a civic history museum located in Vanier Park, Vancouver, British Columbia. MOV is the largest urban museum in Canada and the oldest museum in Vancouver.
3 km · museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 08Kitsilano Beach
Kitsilano Beach is a beach on English Bay in the Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the most popular beaches in the city.
2.3 km · beach in British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 09Vancouver House
Vancouver House is a neo-futurist residential skyscraper in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Construction of the skyscraper began in 2016 and was expected to be finished by the end of 2019, but completion was postponed to summer of 2020.
3.7 km · Residential skyscraper in Vancouver, British Columbia · Wikipedia - 10Granville Street Bridge
The Granville Street Bridge or Granville Bridge is an eight-lane fixed cantilever/truss bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, carrying Granville Street between Downtown Vancouver southwest and the Fairview neighborhood. It spans False Creek and is 27.4 m above Granville Island.
3.4 km · bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia
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Getting to Arbutus Ridge
- Airports
- Vancouver (YVR), 7 km · Victoria (YYJ), 70 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 211 km
- Victoria → Arbutus Ridge91 km · quickest by road, 5h 1m · C$19–26
- Kelowna → Arbutus Ridge275 km · quickest by air, 4h 10m · C$120–190
- Calgary → Arbutus Ridge677 km · quickest by air, 4h 27m · C$160–250
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No local-transport research exists yet for Arbutus Ridge
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Arbutus Ridge. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are multiple ferries (operated by False Creek Ferries and Aquabus) in Vancouver that can take you to the two ferry stations on Granville Island.
- Get aroundTwo ferry operators provide similar service to Granville Island, Yaletown, Science World and the Olympic Village.
- Get aroundTrips connecting with Kitsilano are only offered by False Creek Ferries.
- Get aroundTrips by both ferry operators generally depart on a schedule of every 15 minutes from roughly 7:30 am to 8:00 pm.
From Wikivoyage: Vancouver/Kitsilano-Granville Island, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Arbutus Ridge
Arbutus Ridge is 4 km from Vancouver, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kitsilanohuman settlement in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada1.2 km
- West Point Greyneighbourhood in the western side of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada2 km
- South Granville Riseneighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada3.5 km
- Vancouver Quadrafederal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada (Since 1949)2.2 km
- Greektownneighborhood of Vancouver, Canada900 m
- Dunbar–Southlandsneighbourhood in Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada1.1 km