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Colwood

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Colwood

5 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
    Royal Roads University

    Public university in Colwood, British Columbia, Canada

    1 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Westhills Stadium

    Multi-purpose stadium in Langford, British Columbia, Canada

    3 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Fisgard Lighthouse

    19th century lighthouse in British Columbia, Canada

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site

    National historic Site of Canada located in British Columbia

    2.6 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hatley Park National Historic Site

    University museum, historic house museum in Greater Victoria, British Columbia Canada

    1 km · 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.

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Getting to Colwood

Airports
Victoria (YYJ), 24 km · Vancouver (YVR), 87 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 140 km
Stations
Esquimalt Harbour, 3.9 km
  • Vancouver → Colwood
    95 km · quickest by road, 5h 37m · C$18–24
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  • Kelowna → Colwood
    333 km · quickest by air, 5h 3m · C$160–240
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  • Seattle → Colwood
    126 km · quickest by ferry, 4h 31m · $55–146
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Colwood

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in}} Victoria (Swartz Bay) ferry terminal is served by BC Transit.
  • Get inRoute 70 operates between Victoria (Swartz Bay) ferry terminal and downtown Victoria via downtown Sidney and McTavish Exchange.
  • Get inRoute 72 operates between Victoria (Swartz Bay) ferry terminal and downtown Victoria via downtown Sidney and McTavish Exchange.
  • Get inAbout half an hour drive north of Victoria, there are ferry services in Sidney.
  • Get inOperates routes from: Vancouver (Tsawwassen) ferry terminal (1 hour 35 minutes crossing.

From Wikivoyage: Victoria (British Columbia), 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
    Salt Spring Island and the Southern Gulf IslandsCA

    10 ways of moving, 15 sources

    43 km
  2. 02
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    64 km
  3. 03
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    88 km
  4. 04
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    108 km
  5. 05
    Powell River and the upper Sunshine CoastCA

    12 ways of moving, 22 sources

    173 km

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

Around it

Next door to Colwood

  • Langfordcity in British Columbia, Canada2.5 km
  • Happy Valleyhuman settlement in British Columbia, Canada3.9 km
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