Harewood
Worth seeing in and around Harewood
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.
- 01Vancouver Island University
Vancouver Island University is a Canadian public research university serving Vancouver Island and coastal British Columbia. Malaspina College opened in 1969.
1.8 km · Canadian public university primarily on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 02Petroglyph Provincial Park
Petroglyph Provincial Park is a Canadian provincial park located at the south end of the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia. The park was established on August 24, 1948, to protect a collection of petroglyphs found near the estuary of the Nanaimo River.
1.6 km · provincial park in British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 03Christian Science Society
Christian Science Society, also called the Christian Science Society Building, is an historic single storey style Christian Science church edifice located at 20 Chapel Street in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. It was built between 1900 and 1910 as a single-family house and was known as the McDonald Property.
2.5 km · church building in British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 04Vancouver Island Regional Library
The Vancouver Island Regional Library is the fourth-largest library system in British Columbia. It serves more than 430,000 people on Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii and the Central Coast through 39 branch libraries and a books-by-mail service.
2.2 km · public library system in British Columbia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Harewood
- Airports
- Vancouver (YVR), 56 km · Victoria (YYJ), 67 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 224 km
- Stations
- Nanaimo Harbour Water Airport, 2.6 km · Nanaimo railway station, 1.9 km · Nanaimo Harbour, 2.5 km
- Victoria → Harewood90 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · C$14–18
- Vancouver → Harewood61 km · quickest by ferry, 2h 38m · C$19.5–81
- Kelowna → Harewood332 km · quickest by air, 6h 27m · C$170–260
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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 Harewood
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 Harewood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are three car ferries at three different Nanaimo terminals: Connects with Vancouver (Horseshoe Bay) ferry terminal in West Vancouver.
- Get inThe ferry departs slightly less frequently than once every 2 hours.
- Get inThis is the more scenic of the two ferries from Nanaimo.
- Get inPublic transit Nanaimo (Departure Bay) ferry terminal is served by bus routes operates by BC Transit on the following routes: Routes 20, 20A, and 25 travel between downtown Nanaimo and Woodgrove Exchange (in north Nanaimo) via the ferry terminal.
- Get inVancouver (Horseshoe Bay) ferry terminal is served by several of TransLink's bus routes including: Route 250, connecting to downtown Vancouver.
From Wikivoyage: Nanaimo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Harewood
- Nanaimocity on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada2 km