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Most populated cities it may be harder to find rides, especially around the Greater Vancouver Area & inward toward the west coast. In order to hitchhike out of Vancouver first take the Skytrain to Gateway Station in Surrey. From a bus stop across the street, a bus will take you fairly close to a certain highway on-ramp on the Trans Canada. Bus drivers will be able to give more specific information.

There are different ways to hitchhike out of Vancouver to the east.  1) One easy way is to get onto the Trans-Canada Highway, a.k.a. Canada Highway 1, at the highway entrance right across a road at the eastern boundary of the City of Vancouver, very cleverly named Boundary Road, at the intersection with Grandview Highway, which is not a highway but a normal city street. There is a stop light which causes drivers to stop. Many of them are getting onto the Trans-Canada Highway and going very far. You want to stand on the southwest corner of Grandview Highway and Boundary Road with a sign saying where you want to go. The drivers will look you over and one will take you.To get there from in the city of Vancouver, go to Broadway and take a #9 regular bus or #99express bus east on Broadway to Boundary Road and then a #28 bus south on Boundary Road less than 1 km to Grandview Highway. Or take a Skytrain on the Millennium Line to Rupert station and walk about 8~10 blocks. That's probably faster than the bus on Broadway. Or go to 12th Avenue and hitchhike east. 12th Avenue becomes Grandview Highway and is the main route out of central Vancouver to the Trans-Canada Highway. 2) A very different way is to first take the Skytrain to Gateway Station in Surrey. From a bus stop across the street, a bus will take you fairly close to a certain highway on-ramp on the Trans Canada. Bus drivers will be able to give more specific information. 3) Another way to hitch east would be to take the Millenium line sky-train Skytrain to Braid Lougheed Town Centre station, where you take the express bus 555 to Carvolth. It really is an express bus, and thus faster than the ones starting in Surrey. Carvolth is a bus stop right on highway oneHighway 1, between Langley Centre and Fort Langley. At the moment, the on-ramp right next to the bus stop is being renovated, but if you walk a bit back west, you will find another one. (As well as some gas stations with accessible dumpsters.) 4) Another option that may save you hours of public transit and waiting, but will add to the actual driving time is to head North towards Whistler. That highway eventually ends up near Kamloops, which is a great gateway to the Okanagan. This road is, in my opinion, way more scenic than the highway 1 to Hope and people are a lot more likely to stop on this road.

If you want to go North out of Vancouver towards Squamish and Whistler, catch the #257 Express heading to Horseshoe Bay (2 minute walk from the Granville Street Skytrain Station). The ride takes 25 minutes or more, and can be very full of people with luggage near ferry departure times. Try to leave yourself time as drivers with full buses must sometimes pass you by. Get off at the last stop, which is the Horseshoe Bay Ferry terminal. Cost (2019) is 2.57CAD. Catch the community shuttle C12 Brunswick (also called 262, leaves every hour) just next to where the 257 last stop leaves you and ask the bus driver to let you off near the end of his route at the good hitch hiking spot; they all know where it is. Cost is the same fare. From there you face all the traffic headed north up the Sea to Sky corridor. Another spot easily accessed is near the mall Park Royal. To reach Park Royal take any of the 250 or 257 buses from downtown off West Georgia St and get off at the Park Royal North stop. Walk back in the direction the bus came from to Taylor Way. If you walk up Taylor way on the right side there is a great spot about 75-100 metres up. Stand behind the rail on the sidewalk and hitch from there. It has a great pullout for cars and you catch all the traffic coming from downtown going up to Squamish, Whistler, and beyond.

The price To get all info on public transport in Vancouver, go to www.translink.ca. You can plan your trips, find the times, prices, location of one ticket stops, everything. As of October, 2015, '''all bus tickets for all zones are $2.75'''. If you are taking the SkyTrain or SeaBus the pricing is $2.75 for one 1 zone, and gets more expensive for more zones ($4.00 for two 2 zones, and $5.50 for three 3 zones, depending . After 18:30 on weekdays and all day on how far you are going.) On weekends and holidays, as well as any day after 6:30 pm, the ticket it is always $2.75 for all zoneson buses, SkyTrain, and Seabus. One ticket lasts for 1hr 30min, and permits unlimited transfers within that time frame. If you tell a bus driver your ticket just expired, they may let you get on with an expired ticket.

Wild camping on the beach (Spanish Banks, Locarno or Jericho Beach) or on the grass nearby is possible, although Jericho Beach Park closes at night. Wonderful view of downtown Vancouver at night. You might see some tents already pitched there! Mosquitoes (tons of them) are a possibility, but it depends on the day : Vancouver is actually known for not having a lot of mosquitoes but we got unlucky.  The North Shore (suburbs of North Vancouver and West Vancouver) is another great option for wild camping. These suburbs have very low crime and a lot of green space. There's a lot of great hiking/exploring to be done on the North Shore as well, so it's a great place to chill if you're visiting Vancouver. Try the neighbourhoods, of Horseshoe Bay, Lighthouse Park, Lonsdale Quay, Lynn Valley, or Deep Cove == Trashwiki & Nomadwiki == [[nomad:Vancouver]] [[trash:Vancouver]]