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Chartwell

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chartwell

7 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
    Lions Gate Bridge

    The Lions Gate Bridge, opened in 1938 and officially known as the First Narrows Bridge, is a suspension bridge that crosses the first narrows of Burrard Inlet and connects the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, to the North Shore municipalities of the District of North Vancouver, the City of North Vancouver, and West Vancouver. The term "Lions Gate" refers to the Lions, a pair of mountain peaks north of Vancouver.

    3.9 km · suspension bridge in Vancouver, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Capilano Suspension Bridge

    The Capilano Suspension Bridge is a simple suspension bridge crossing the Capilano River in Upper Capilano, British Columbia, Canada, in the District of North Vancouver. The current bridge is 140 metres long and 70 metres above the river.

    3.1 km · suspension bridge in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Capilano Lake

    Capilano Lake is a manmade lake located in the District of North Vancouver and West Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada.

    3.9 km · lake in British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cleveland Dam

    The Cleveland Dam is a 91-metre-high concrete dam at the head of the Capilano River in Upper Capilano, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada that holds back Capilano Lake, also known as Capilano reservoir. Part of the Capilano River Regional Park, it stores a portion of the Lower Mainland's drinking water.

    3.3 km · dam in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Seawall

    The seawall in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a stone wall that was constructed around the perimeter of Stanley Park to prevent erosion of the park's foreshore and is the world's longest uninterrupted waterfront path. Colloquially, the term also denotes the pedestrian, bicycle, and rollerblading pathway on the seawall, one which has been extended far outside the boundaries of Stanley Park and which has become one of the most-used features of the park by both locals and tourists.

    4 km · stone wall constructed around Stanley Park · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Park Royal Shopping Centre

    Park Royal Shopping Centre, also known as simply Park Royal, opened in 1950, is a shopping mall located in West Vancouver and X̱wemelch'stn, British Columbia, Canada. Park Royal was Canada's first covered shopping mall.

    2.8 km · shopping mall in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Capilano River Regional Park

    Capilano River Regional Park is located in the District of North Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of twenty-three regional parks operated by the Metro Vancouver.

    2.9 km · Regional park in British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia

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Getting to Chartwell

Airports
Vancouver (YVR), 17 km · Victoria (YYJ), 81 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 220 km
  • Victoria → Chartwell
    103 km · quickest by road, 5h 26m · C$21–28
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  • Kelowna → Chartwell
    271 km · quickest by air, 4h 40m · C$140–220
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  • Calgary → Chartwell
    672 km · quickest by air, 4h 57m · C$180–280
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chartwell

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTransLink operates the SeaBus, a passenger only ferry, between Waterfront Station and in North Vancouver on the North Shore.
  • Get inFerry terminals in the North Shore area: in West Vancouver has three routes servicing it, including to Bowen Island, the Sunshine Coast, and Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.
  • Get aroundVery busy on the weekends in summer, it has a number of small shops, restaurants, parks, canoe/kayak rentals and hiking.
  • Get aroundIt also marks the end of Highway 1 and the start of the Sea-to-Sky highway, as well as having a BC Ferries terminal, so it provides both transportation and sightseeing opportunities.
  • Get aroundA live web cam view of the bay shows all the marine traffic and BC Ferries ships as they travel in and out of the area.

From Wikivoyage: North Shore (British Columbia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    26 km
  2. 02
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    61 km
  3. 03
    Salt Spring Island and the Southern Gulf IslandsCA

    10 ways of moving, 15 sources

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

    12 ways of moving, 22 sources

    113 km
  5. 05
    Courtenay, Comox and the Comox ValleyCA

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

    136 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chartwell

Chartwell is 11 km from Vancouver, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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