Walking to Grouse Mountain Zipline

Located high above North Vancouver, Grouse Mountain offers numerous great activities regardless of the season including in summer.

 


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Admission | Location | Year-Round Activities | Skyride Tram | Hiking & Chairlift Rides | Lumberjack Show | Birds in Motion | Disc Golf | Ropes Course | Grizzly Bear Viewing | Dining & Movies | Eye of the Wind | Mountain Ziplining | Grouse Grind | Hiking | Other Information


 

Summertime at Vancouver’s Grouse Mountain

There are lots of things to see and do at Grouse Mountain in the summer (and late spring and early fall). Activities include Skyride tram rides, hiking, chairlift trips, the Grouse Grind, Lumberjack shows, Birds in Motion demonstrations and mountain disc golf. There is also a grizzly bear habitat area, fine dining, free movies, a ropes course, the Eye of the Wind turbine views and Ziplining Adventures.

For information about the resort in the snowy season, click Grouse Mountain in Winter. For information on Grouse Mountain in the late spring, summer and early fall, see below.

 

WildPlay Element Park in Maple Ridge

 


ZIPLINING IN THE LOWER MAINLAND

Grouse Mountain isn’t the only place in the region that offers ziplining and ropes course adventures. Some of our favourite venues for these kinds of things are WildPlay in Maple Ridge and Superfly Ziplines and the Aerial Obstacle Course in Whistler. All three of these places are amazing!


 

Grouse Admission Cost

For most of the summer, the Skyride trip up Grouse Mountain when not skiing costs $75 for adults, $65 for seniors (ages 65+), $55 for youth (ages 13 to 18), $39 for children (ages 5 to 12), free for children 4 and under, and $189 for a family of four.

The above prices, as of November 2023, are for a Mountain Experience ticket which includes access to the movie theatre, rides up the chairlift, mountain disc golf, hiking trails, grizzly bear habitat and Peak Chairlift. It also includes access to live entertainment like the Lumberjack performance and Birds in Motion show when in season.

 


To book your visit to Grouse through Tiqets.com click Grouse Mountain Tickets. Tiqets.com is one of the world’s largest and most trusted online ticket sellers for museums and attractions. (TIP: If you use the promo code VANBEST10 you might save 10%, assuming that the promotion is still offered).


 

Capilano Suspension Bridge

 

Attraction Location & Directions

Grouse Mountain is located at 6400 Nancy Greene Way in North Vancouver.

Coming over from Vancouver via Stanley Park and the Lions Gate Bridge, veer right onto Marine Drive towards North Vancouver. (Do not veer left as you will be heading in the oppositive direction towards West Vancouver.) At the first traffic lights turn left onto Capilano Road and continue on up the hill until you reach Grouse Mountain.

Grouse Mountain Year-Round

The following activities are what you can do at Grouse Mountain during the summer, and most other times when the mountain isn’t blanketed in snow.

 

Skyride Tram and Fabulous Views

The trip up to Grouse Mountain from the parking lot is a fabulous experience. The views are stunning on any clear day of the year.

The Skyride aerial tramway ride up offers breathtaking views of Vancouver, the ocean and all the surrounding area. Departures take place year-round about once every 15 minutes between around 8:45 am and 10:00 pm.

 

View from Grouse Mountain Skyride
View from the Skyride Tram

 

Hiking and Chairlift Rides

Grouse Mountain is a fantastic place for hiking in summer. It’s beautiful, not too hot and has unbelievable views. It doesn’t cost anything to hike around Grouse Mountain once you’re on the hill, and you can hike right up to the top.

One hike that we recommend is to Goat Mountain. It’s a higher peak that features a panoramic view of the city, water and mountain ranges.

There is also the Peak Chairlift you can take to the top of the hill from May until October (weather permitting).

 

Lumberjack Show Entertainment

In the summer at the top of the mountain there is live entertainment including Grouse Mountain’s popular Lumberjack Show. The show features a comedy competition by a pair of Canadian lumberjacks.

The 45-minute Lumberjack performance includes axe throwing, pole climbing, wood chopping and log rolling. It’s all wonderfully fun and stereotypically Canadian.

The Lumberjack Show runs about three times a day from late May until early October.

 

Grouse Lumber Jack Show
Grouse Mountain Lumberjack Show

 

Birds in Motion Show

Another great exhibit that you won’t want to miss at Grouse Mountain is the Birds in Motion show. Here you’ll get to see trainers with their hawks, falcons, owls and possibly even an eagle.

Also taking place in the afternoons from early May until the beginning of October, the bird demonstrations are entertaining, educational, lots of fun and included with the general price of admission.

 

Grouse Mountain Disc Golf

Grouse Mountain features a great 18-hole mountain disc golf course. A round is included with your tram ride Alpine Experience ticket or Annual Pass, and discs are available for purchase. It’s lots of fun, and good exercise too!

 

Mountain Ropes Adventure

The ropes courses at Grouse Mountain are divided into four levels based on your height, weight, age and athletic ability. It costs $48 per person when booking online or $53 per person when purchasing a ticket in-person at the mountain. The cost is the same regardless of age but you must be at least eight years old to participate. The route lasts about two hours depending on how fast you go.

 

Grizzly Habitat at Grouse Mountain
Grouse Mountain Grizzly Bear

 

Grizzly Bear Viewing

Grouse Mountain’s two resident grizzly bears, Grinder and Coola, enjoy a large enclosure full of nature, trees and lots to eat. Visitors can see these two massive creatures meandering around, except in winter when there is a live video showing them fast asleep enjoying their hibernation indoors.

 

Dining and Movies in the Lodge

At the top of the Skyride tramway at Grouse Mountain is the main lodge, the Peak Chalet, which has two restaurants, a cafe/cafeteria, ski and gift shops, and a movie theatre. The theatre features free films including ones about Vancouver and the lives of Grouse Mountain’s two resident grizzly bears.

 

Observatory Restaurant at Grouse Mountain
Observatory Restaurant at Dusk

 

Grouse Mountain Restaurants

The Observatory is Grouse Mountain’s fancy restaurant and it features great food and amazing views.

Altitudes Bistro is another great restaurant; it’s a little more casual but with equally impressive window-side scenery.

 

Theatre in the Sky

Films are shown in the Theatre in the Sky in the Peak Chalet and they are free with your Alpine Experience pass trip up in the tram. It’s a tiny theatre and the films are short, but they are well worth seeing.

Films run all day and start about once every half hour.

TIP: Arrive early and find a seat near the top where there’s something to rest your back up against.

 

Eye of the Wind

Eye of the Wind at Grouse MountainOne of the newest additions to Grouse Mountain is the Eye of the Wind. It’s a massive wind turbine at the mountain’s summit that you can go up inside (for an extra $15 or so for people ages 17+). The views from there are out of this world!

As of November 2023, this attraction is temporarily closed to the public.

TIP: When open, make sure to go up on a beautiful sunny day when you can see the entire Lower Mainland for miles around. If it’s overcast, then it’s not so exciting.

 

Mountain Ziplining

Ziplining at Grouse Mountain is amazing. The views are incredible and the thrills are even more so.

A 90-minute five-line Mountain Zipline Tour costs about $114 per person when booking online or $119 per person when purchasing a ticket in-person at the mountain. (Note: Rates are in addition to general admission to the mountain and are subject to change.)

The ziplining doesn’t run year-round. It usually starts up in May and finishes around the Thanksgiving Long Weekend in October.

For more information, click Grouse Mountain Ziplines.

 

Ziplining at Grouse Mountain
Ziplining at Grouse Mountain

 

The Grouse Grind

If you have the crazy urge for some serious exercise and want to avoid the expense of the tram ride up, an alternative route to the base of Grouse Mountain is via the more than 2,800 stairs on the Grouse Grind Trail.

The Grouse Grind is not the most scenic part of Grouse Mountain, at least not until you reach the top. It is, however, where you’ll get the best workout for your legs!

The Grouse Grind Trail
The Grouse Grind

The Grind is a fairly grueling hike up hundreds of stairs in the middle of the forest. If you want exercise, this is a great place to come. And it’s not so hard on the knees as you aren’t allowed to hike back down. Everyone has to descend by the aerial tramway (but the one-way ticket down is less than half the price of a ticket both ways).

The Grouse Grind is a 2.9-kilometre hike that takes a typical novice around two hours to complete. Fitness addicts who run up, however, can complete the course in as little as 30 minutes.

The Grouse Grind trail is closed in winter and open in the summer. Depending on the snow conditions, it usually closes shortly before the ski season starts up (in late November or early December). It then re-opens a week or two after the end of the ski season (so sometime in May).

TIP: If you want to climb a mountain, and you have a car, visit the Stawamus Chief in Squamish which is about a 45-minute drive from Vancouver. The Stawamus Chief hike is almost as grueling as the Grouse Grind, but with less stairs and even more impressive scenery.

 

Hiking at Grouse Mountain

The Grouse Grind isn’t the only hiking trail at Grouse Mountain. Another great one is the hike to Goat Mountain. It’s about a four-hour trek there and back. It’s not overly challenging, and the views are amazing.

There are other trails on Grouse Mountain itself too. And if you want to hike up to the top from the parking lot, in addition to the Grind, there is the BCMC Trail.

 

View from Goat Mountain Hike
View on the Goat Mountain Hike

 

Other Information

To learn more about the attraction in summer see the Grouse Mountain website.

For more ideas on other great things to do in the Lower Mainland, check out Vancouver’s Top Attractions.

For a list of what’s happening around town, check out Vancouver’s Best Places Events Calendar.

And for information on Grouse Mountain in Winter or Metro Vancouver’s other great ski hills, check out Lower Mainland Ski Hills.

For information about Grouse Mountain and its year-round activities in general, click Grouse Mountain.

 

ACCESSIBILITY NOTE:

Grouse Mountain is actually fairly wheelchair-accessible in the non-ski season – just not when there’s snow, although many people with mobility issues do still find it a great place to ski.

Wheelchairs can’t get everywhere at Grouse Mountain (like up the summer lifts, except for the aerial Skyride tram), but there are paved pathways to most places of interest.

 

 

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