Very near to Vancouver, specifically downtown, would be Stanley Park, the most obvious answer. At this point, there are still sections of the park that are disaster zones because of last winter’s windstorms, but there’s certainly enough of the park for you to have a good day’s hike through. I think the 19 bus for Translink will take you to the Stanley Park loop.

A less obvious answer and certainly out of town would be Whistler. While it’s a ski resort most of the year, it’s a very popular place to hike in the summer. It’s an easy Greyhound trip from Pacific Central Station. There are several buses that run each day. It’s no more than $20 each way.

Pacific Spirit Park (aka the Endowment Lands) is low-impact but tres natural, all around UBC at the westernmost edge of Vancouver.

Pacific Spirit is a great choice. I always enjoy hiking there on a leisure day feeling in touch with nature.

Mount Seymour can be a nice one-day hike. Less intense, more choices (lots of trails to choose from), more variety of scenery.

Mentioned before is Stanley park. A walk or rollerblade from coal habour to english bay on the seawall should be a great spending of 1~3hr.

Hiya, the times i’ve been back to Vancouver I always think of Lynn Valley or Canyon as a great place to go, it’s a bus ride but the views and the rope/capiiano type bridge makes it worth the trip and its free, nice place to go hiking, but for a quick five minute walk and if you are around stanley park I’d say lost lagoon. you would always find me there walking my gf beagle :)

Bowen Island! The Mount Gardiner hike is a bit long (about 3 hours) but is great.

A much shorter walk is the walk around Killarney Lake, which is always beautiful.

Take the 250 / 257 bus to horseshoe bay, then the 15min ferry to the other side.

These are all great options. My favs being Lynn Canyon and Stanley Park. There is just so much to do!