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Belcarra

Belcarra is a village on the shore of Indian Arm, a side inlet of Burrard Inlet, and is part of Metro Vancouver.

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The place

Belcarra is a village on the shore of Indian Arm, a side inlet of Burrard Inlet, and is part of Metro Vancouver. It lies northwest of Port Moody and immediately east of the Deep Cove area of North Vancouver, across the waters of Indian Arm. Isolated by geography on a narrow peninsula, Belcarra is accessible by a single winding paved road or by water. Before incorporation it was commonly known as Belcarra Bay.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Belcarra

4 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.

  1. 01
    Sasamat Lake

    Sasamat Lake is located east of Bedwell Bay, which is off the Indian Arm of Burrard Inlet. It is also within Belcarra Regional Park in Port Moody, British Columbia.

    2.8 km · lake in British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    White Pine Beach

    White Pine Beach is a beach on Sasamat Lake in Belcarra Regional Park in Port Moody, British Columbia. TransLink provides seasonal bus service.

    2 km · beach in British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Burnaby Velodrome

    One of only three indoor bicycle racing tracks in Canada, the Burnaby Velodrome is located in Burnaby, British Columbia. It is operated by the non-profit Burnaby Velodrome Club, and is an affiliated member of Cycling British Columbia.

    3 km · velodrome in Burnaby, British Columbia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    təmtəmíxʷtən/Belcarra Regional Park

    təmtəmíxʷtən/Belcarra Regional Park is a 1,100-hectare regional park located in Belcarra, Greater Vancouver, British Columbia. It is northeast of the meeting of Burrard Inlet with Indian Arm, beginning near Belcarra Bay and extending to Sasamat Lake.

    2.3 km · park in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Rocky Point Park

    2800 Murray Street (at the foot of Moody St).

From Wikivoyage: Belcarra, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Walk along the 3-km

  1. 01
    Admirality Point
  2. 02
    Buntzen Lake Buntzen Lake Recreational Area
  3. 03
    Buntzen Lake Trail

From Wikivoyage: Belcarra, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Browns Social House

    Mon-Fri 11AM-midnight, Sat-Sun 10AM-midnight.

  2. 02
    Pajo's Fish and Chips

    2800 Murray St (located in Rocky Point Park),.

  3. 03
    The Boathouse

    Mon-Thu 11AM-10PM, Fri 11AM-11PM, Sat 9AM-11PM, Sun 9AM-10PM.

From Wikivoyage: Belcarra, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Belcarra

Airports
Vancouver (YVR), 23 km · Victoria (YYJ), 83 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 212 km
  • Victoria → Belcarra
    103 km · quickest by road, 5h 44m · C$23–30
  • Kelowna → Belcarra
    256 km · quickest by air, 4h 56m · C$150–230
  • Calgary → Belcarra
    658 km · quickest by air, 5h 13m · C$190–290
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Belcarra

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 Belcarra. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inSee Vancouver for a listing of options to reach the Vancouver area by plane, by ferry, by intercity bus, and by intercity rail.
  • Get aroundDeparting from Waterfront Station downtown and Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver, the passenger only ferry ride takes 12 minutes to cross the harbour and the big windows at the front and back provide great views of the North Shore mountains and the downtown Vancouver skyline.
  • Go nextIf you're not ready to return to Vancouver yet, the North Vancouver offers several options for day trips and moving on.
  • Go nextGet on the ferry from Horseshoe Bay to the Sunshine Coast or Nanaimo.

From Wikivoyage: North Vancouver, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    43 km
  2. 0269 km
  3. 03
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    75 km
  4. 04
    Powell River and the upper Sunshine CoastCA

    12 ways of moving, 22 sources

    129 km
  5. 05
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    134 km

If you know how people move in Belcarra – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Belcarra

Belcarra is 16 km from Vancouver, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Barnethuman settlement in British Columbia, Canada3.1 km
  • Deep Covehuman settlement in Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada2.2 km