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White Rock

White Rock is a city in the Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.

White Rock
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The place

White Rock is a city in the Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered by Semiahmoo Bay to the south and is surrounded on three sides by Surrey. To the southeast across a footbridge lies the Semiahmoo First Nation, which is within the borders of Surrey. Semiahmoo Bay and the Southern Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia are also to the south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around White Rock

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
    Peace Arch

    The Peace Arch is a monument situated near the westernmost point of the Canada–United States border in the contiguous United States, between the communities of Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia. Construction of the 20.5-metre tall arch was headed by American lawyer Sam Hill and dedicated in September 1921.

    4.2 km · monument at the Canada-USA border · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Peace Arch Park

    Peace Arch Park is an international park consisting of Peace Arch Historical State Park in Washington, United States and Peace Arch Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada. The park straddles the international boundary between the two countries at the extreme western end of the main contiguous section of the two countries' land border, between Blaine, Washington, United States, and Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, where it reaches Semiahmoo Bay of the Salish Sea on the continent's Pacific Coast.

    4.2 km · international park between Canada and the United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    South Surrey Park and Ride

    The South Surrey Park and Ride is a bus loop and park and ride facility serving the South Surrey area. As part of the TransLink system, it is used by five routes serving South Surrey and White Rock, including towards Vancouver via Bridgeport station in Richmond as well as to Newton and Surrey City Centre.

    5.5 km · park and ride facility · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    White Rock Pier

    White Rock Pier is a 470-metre-long pier in White Rock, British Columbia. The pier has a sign identifying it as Canada's longest pier.

    700 m · pier in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Semiahmoo Harbor Light

    The Semiahmoo Harbor Lighthouse was a lighthouse on Semiahmoo Bay near the port of Blaine, Whatcom County, Washington, in the United States.

    3.9 km · lighthouse in Washington, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to White Rock

Airports
Vancouver (YVR), 34 km · Victoria (YYJ), 62 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 179 km
Stations
Blaine Municipal Airport, 6.4 km · Surrey/King George Airpark, 7.7 km
  • Victoria → White Rock
    77 km · quickest by road, 4h 58m · C$20–26
  • Kelowna → White Rock
    258 km · quickest by road, 5h 48m · C$45–60
  • Calgary → White Rock
    661 km · quickest by air, 5h 44m · C$190–290
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No local-transport research exists yet for White Rock

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 0156 km
  2. 02
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    66 km
  3. 03
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    84 km
  4. 04
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

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

    12 ways of moving, 22 sources

    154 km

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Around it

Next door to White Rock

White Rock is 9 km from Surrey, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • South Surrey—White Rockfederal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada (Since 2015)3.8 km
  • Crescent Beachhuman settlement in Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada6.2 km
  • South Surreydistrict of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada2.9 km