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Grouse Mountain Named Best Local Tourist Attraction Winner in Georgia Straight's 2017 Best of Vancouver Awards A huge thank you to everyone who voted in the Georgia Straight's 22nd annual Best of Vancouver awards. We're honoured to be voted 'Best Local Tourist Attraction' by you!The annual Best of Vancouver awards creates a portrait of Vancouver by asking readers to rate the best our City has to

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What to my Wondering Eyes Should Appear... The other morning there arose such a clatter, that we sprang to our helipad to see what was the matter!Turns out it was Dancer and Vixen, two of Santa's reindeer crew, arriving at Grouse Mountain from the North Pole to visit for our Peak of Christmas event!We are lucky that each year two of Santa's Reindeer visit as reindeer ambassadors to all of our

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minutes finding every stick in the pond and pulling it up to see if there were eggs attached.  If they found eggs they made short work of them and quickly slurped them up. Explorations After a good feast on amphibian eggs, both bears headed out to explore the newly opened territory and look for leftover favourite sticks and stones from last year.  Grinder led the explorations of course!  This habitat

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we installed our new bear scale so we could get more regular weights. Grinder, being the bolder of the two bears, immediately checked it out and in fairly short order started stepping onto it and even sitting on it watching us do our work and bring the bear food out. Coola, ever suspicious, checked it out and decided he would have nothing to do with it. Despite our best efforts at bribery Coola

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Earth Day 2017 Happy Earth Day! Today we celebrate our beautiful planet Earth.It's a great day to get out and acknowledge the beauty of nature as well as think about what actions we can take in our everyday lives to conserve that beauty.At Grouse Mountain, we are working towards reducing our own environmental footprint. While it's an ongoing journey, here are some of the steps we're taking to

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-station. Grouse Mountain is expecting a large snowfall starting Sunday night and continuing through to Tuesday evening that could see 50cm accumulate. Our team is hard at work to open additional terrain soon, so stay tuned! Access to skiing and riding is available with a Y2Play, Early Bird, 3-Day Plus+ or Black Friday Night Pass. For those without a pass, early season pricing (Mountain Admission) is

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Around-the-Clock Activities Return to Grouse Mountain for 24 Hours of Winter Celebrate from sundown to sunrise this weekend at the Peak of Vancouver (North Vancouver) In celebration of all things winter, Grouse Mountain is thrilled to host its annual 24 Hours of Winter event taking place Saturday, February 17th through Sunday, February 18th. Guests are invited to enjoy 24 consecutive hours of

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our announcement/alert section on the Current Conditions page.Should volume necessitate, we will open a second overflow parking lot at Handsworth Secondary School and Cleveland Dam.Grouse Mountain is also the only North Shore mountain accessible by BC Transit. The public transit system offers regular service to and from the base of Grouse Mountain every half hour. Catch Bus 232 - Phibbs Exchange or

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one with the longest migration as they head to Mexico each year and back to BC and Alaska to breed.The Anna's Hummingbird is the other species we see and it has been increasing it's range every year as it adapts to human influenced environments.  The Anna's Hummingbird has become non-migratory and instead feeds on human planted food and on feeders to survive the winter in our region.This session

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Nick Elson Tops the Podium at the SHOES.COM Grouse Grind® Mountain Run Brooke Spence takes top honours in women's category (North Vancouver) The skies began to clear as over 400 participants took to the trail this morning for the SHOES.COM Grouse Grind® Mountain Run. Now in its 26th year the event welcomed all ages and abilities to enjoy the iconic Grouse Grind® while raising valuable funds in

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