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Summary

"The Drive Around" series is an indispensable guide to touring a country or region by car. A great combination of guidebook and route map, they highlight all the best places of interest with detours to avoid the main tourist trails. The best of Vancouver's big city attractions is included, plus Victoria's heritage buildings and the magnificent scenery of British Columbia's mountains, forests and rivers. In every chapter, you will find lodging and eating recommendations for individual towns, or for the area as a whole. Among the top 25 tours are: the Gulf Islands, where dolphins are found offshore; the Gold Rush Trail, where you can discover the roots of BC's prosperity; and the desert landscapes next to lush orchards of Okanagan Valley. No touring holiday is complete without one of these essential guides.

About Drive Around Guides	p. 8
Vancouver and British Columbia at a glance	p. 10
Introduction	p. 12
Travel facts	p. 14
Driver's guide	p. 24
Getting to Vancouver and British Columbia	p. 30
Setting the scene	p. 32
Highlights and touring itineraries	p. 40
Vancouver: Harbour vistas, parks, museums and galleries	p. 42
The Gulf Islands: Island archipelago with dolphins offshore	p. 56
Victoria: BC's capital where heritage is mixed with the off-beat	p. 62
South Vancouver Island: Victoria's playground with oceanfront parks	p. 76
Central Vancouver Island: Lakes, forests and endless beaches	p. 86
North Vancouver Island: Hunters, fishers and wild nature	p. 96
Ferry voyages: Coastal vistas and blue fjords	p. 106
Queen Charlotte Islands: Bears, eagles and moss-covered forests	p. 116
Lower Fraser Valley: Rich farmlands and a river full of salmon	p. 122
The Cascade Mountains: BC's scenic mountains	p. 130
Kamloops: BC's city at the meeting of two rivers	p. 138
Okanagan Valley: Desert landscapes next to vineyards and orchards	p. 148
Shuswap Lakes: Ribbon lakes and dramatic canyons	p. 158
Railway journeys: Go west by transcontinental railroad	p. 166
Howe Sound and Whistler: North America's acclaimed mountain resort	p. 176
The Gold Rush Trail: Discover the roots of BC's growth and prosperity	p. 386
Cariboo-Chilcotin: Cattle ranches and ghost towns in Canada's Wild West	p. 198
Prince Rupert: Port city amidst the green forests of northern BC	p. 206
The Yellowhead Highway: Prince Rupert to Prince George: Explore the northern interior	p. 214
Prince George: Exploring base for BC's interior	p. 222
Columbia River: Birds and wildflowers at the source of BC's mighty river	p. 230
The Kootenays: Mirror lakes and sheer mountains plus mining history	p. 240
The Crowsnest: Scenic alpine resorts near the Alberta-BC border	p. 250
BC Rockies Parks: Raw nature awaiting discovery in National Parks	p. 258
Alberta Rockies Parks: Glaciers, ice-blue rivers and pristine peaks	p. 270
How to talk Canadian	p. 282
Index	p. 283
Feedback form	p. 287
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"Canada's best-known natural icons don't disappoint. If anything, the peaks are higher and more pristine, the lakes a deeper aquamarine, the rivers an icier blue, the glaciers vaster and the animals more evident than seems possible."

Excerpted from Drive Around Vancouver and British Columbia: Your Guide to Great Drives Top 25 Tours by Maxine Cass, Fred Gebhart
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