1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver

1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver is a pretty self-explanatory Scout column that gives equal weight to the common attributes and obscure intangibles that make our city well worth living in. Getting to a thousand is a pretty ambitious goal, but we believe in our city and we’re already well under way.

1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Downtown

All That Colourful Art on the Walls at ‘The Magnet’ Is Not What It Seems…

Downtown's beer-forward restaurant is a trove of quirky details from bar to bathroom. Here's a cool thing to look out for...
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Main Street

This Mt. Pleasant Restaurant Honours Its Veteran Staff Members in a Really Cool Way

Wallflower Diner recognizes and celebrates its long-serving crew members by affixing their names to the long edge of the wooden bar.
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / False Creek

The One Delicious Day of the Year We Actually Looking Forward to Meat Sweats

The annual Brewery and the Beast festival of meat and beer easily cracks our 1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver list.
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Kitsilano

The Floating Respite Within Easy Swimming Reach of Kits Beach

Kits Beach would be a shoe-in for our 1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver project if it wasn't so damn obvious. This makes more sense.
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Railtown Japantown

Our Favourite Event of the Summer? The Powell Street Festival

The annual festival in and around Oppenheimer Park offers up full plates of Japanese-Canadian arts, culture, and fabulous food.
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Commercial Drive

Get Your Eating Pants Ready! Italian Day is Coming

The annual celebration of Italian heritage is one of our great entertainment assets -- 14 blocks of delicious things to eat, drink, see and do!
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver

From Humble Beginnings Came This Outstanding, Week-Long Beer Festival

Our '1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver' series continues with a no brainer: Vancouver Craft Beer Week
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Strathcona

Sunshine, Concrete Couches and Ping Pong Next to a Brewery on a Bike Route

The new double-triangle bike route hangout on Vernon Drive (at Union Street) is the chillest place to take a break during rush hour.
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver

One of the Coolest, Most Fleetingly Delicious Facts of Life in Vancouver…

What's free, delicious, hard to get, impossibly sweet, juicy and incredibly versatile? Local blackberries!
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Commercial Drive

Catch This Well-Timed, Beefalicious Skylight Smoke Show on Commercial Drive

A lot of smoke, a skylight and the right time of day combine for magic at La Mezcaleria
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver

It Offers Workers Truly Spectacular Commutes
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver

Coming Home After A Long Time Away From It
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / West End

The Constant Hum & Spectacle Of Seaplanes
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver

That One Day When Summer Suddenly Arrives
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Gastown

The Social Seating Experiment At Timbertrain
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Strathcona

A Hidden Arcade Of Cool Classics In Strathcona
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver

Its A Natural Amphitheatre For Amazing Sunsets
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / West Side

Arthur Erickson’s Soothing Waterfall Building
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Downtown

Tuesday Nights At The Vancouver Art Gallery
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Downtown

Hunting Titles & Smelling Deep At MacLeod’s
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Main Street

CRAB Park: A Hidden Gem On The Waterfront
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / East Vancouver

The View Of The City From This East Van Alley
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / West Side

Its Scattered ‘Living Fossil’ Monkey Puzzle Trees
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / East Vancouver

A Hot Wheels Illusion On The Dunsmuir Viaduct
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Gastown

A Glance Up Cambie Between Water & Cordova
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / North Shore

A Local Abundance Of Wild, Delicious Shrooms
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Main Street

The Purple Lights Of Our Ancient Basements
1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / East Vancouver

A Vintage “Tin Can Studio” Of Mobile Creativity