Barnston Island
Barnston Island is an unincorporated island located in the Greater Vancouver metropolitan area of British Columbia, Canada.
Barnston Island is an unincorporated island located in the Greater Vancouver metropolitan area of British Columbia, Canada. Most of it is part of Metro Vancouver Electoral Area A; the remainder is Barnston Island Indian Reserve No. 3, which is outside Electoral Area A limits and under the governance of the Katzie First Nation, headquartered across the river at their main reserve in Pitt Meadows. Although the island is unincorporated and not officially part of any municipality, mailing addresses on the island use Surrey as the city name.
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Worth seeing in and around Barnston Island
2 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.
- 01Golden Ears Bridge
The Golden Ears Bridge is a six-lane extradosed bridge in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia. It spans the Fraser River, connecting Langley on the south side with Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge on the north side.
2.9 km · bridge in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia · Wikipedia - 02Surrey Bend Regional Park
Surrey Bend Regional Park is an 860-acre park in Surrey, British Columbia. It is located along the Fraser River and Parsons Channel, and most of its area is a floodplain.
3 km · park in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia
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Getting to Barnston Island
- Airports
- Vancouver (YVR), 35 km · Victoria (YYJ), 80 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 196 km
- Stations
- Pitt Meadows Airport, 2.5 km · Maple Meadows station, 3.8 km · Pitt Meadows station, 3.8 km · Pitt Meadows Water Aerodrome, 1.7 km
- Victoria → Barnston Island97 km · quickest by road, 5h 22m · C$21–28
- Kelowna → Barnston Island244 km · quickest by road, 5h 36m · C$45–60
- Calgary → Barnston Island648 km · quickest by air, 5h 46m · C$190–290
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Barnston Island
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 Barnston Island. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSurrey can be reached by traveling east from Vancouver (Horseshoe Bay) ferry terminal and Vancouver, and can be reached from by traveling west from Kamloops and the Fraser Valley.
- Get inVancouver (Horseshoe Bay) ferry terminal is the point of arrival for travelers from Bowen Island, Vancouver Island, and the Sunshine Coast Highway 10.
- Get inTerminates in Surrey after traveling from Vancouver (Tsawwassen) ferry terminal in Delta, about 30 minutes away from Surrey.
- Get inVancouver (Tsawwassen) ferry terminal is the point of arrival for travelers from Vancouver Island and the Southern Gulf Islands.
- Get aroundDuring overnight hours, there is one bus route serving Surrey: N19 - Between downtown Vancouver and Surrey Central station via Burnaby and New Westminster Ferry serving Surrey:
From Wikivoyage: Surrey (British Columbia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Barnston Island
Barnston Island is 13 km from Surrey, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.