Overview

A favorite beach-walking area with views of downtown Vancouver, Stanley Park and the Lions Gate Bridge, sailboats, freighters and tugboats. A popular meeting place, Ambleside Beach features a pitch 'n' putt, fitness circuit, dog path and bird sanctuary. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has played in the park in past summers and the Ferry Building, a heritage gallery, exhibits local artists' work year-round. During the summer, the vintage steam locomotive, The Royal Hudson, chugs past twice daily. West Vancouver's shoreline Centennial Seawalk starts at Ambleside and features a panoramic view of freighters and cruise ships travelling past the beach and under Lions Gate Bridge.<br /><br />At the foot of 13th St. and Ambleside Beach is a cairn honoring the first European explorer to visit the Burrard Inlet area (1791), Jose Narvaez. One block west is the old ferry ticket office at Ferry Square where a plaque details how from 1913 to 1947 North Shore residents could catch a ferry across the inlet.<br /><br />To get to Ambleside Park, head north over the Lions Gate Bridge, follow Marine Drive west past Park Royal Shopping Centre and you'll see Ambleside's grassy playing fields and sandy beach to the south. A favorite beach-walking area with views of downtown Vancouver, Stanley Park and the Lions Gate Bridge, sailboats, freighters and tugboats. A popular meeting place, Ambleside Beach features a pitch 'n' putt, fitness circuit, dog path and bird sanctuary. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has played in the park in past summers and the Ferry Building, a heritage gallery, exhibits local artists' work year-round. During the summer, the vintage steam locomotive, The Royal Hudson, chugs past twice daily. West Vancouver's shoreline Centennial Seawalk starts at Ambleside and features a panoramic view of freighters and cruise ships travelling past the beach and under Lions Gate Bridge.<br /><br />At the foot of 13th St. and Ambleside Beach is a cairn honoring the first European explorer to visit the Burrard Inlet area (1791), Jose Narvaez. One block west is the old ferry ticket office at Ferry Square where a plaque details how from 1913 to 1947 North Shore residents could catch a ferry across the inlet.<br /><br />To get to Ambleside Park, head north over the Lions Gate Bridge, follow Marine Drive west past Park Royal Shopping Centre and you'll see Ambleside's grassy playing fields and sandy beach to the south.