A member of the Vancouver Hiking Meetup group has drawn my attention to the Regional Parks section of the Metro Vancouver (nee GVRD) website. It has a quick introduction to many of the parks that can be found around the Vancouver area including park maps. The Metro Vancouver parks cover an immense and diverse area from Boundary Bay on the US border north to Bowen Island and east all the way to Abbotsford, taking in the likes of North Vancouver, Burnaby, Port Moody/Belcarra, Pitt Meadows and Aldergrove.

The website is a good place to start to get an idea of places to go and have a nice weekend hike, however it doesn’t include Provincial Parks such as Garibaldi, Golden Ears, Cypress and Seymour and also doesn’t include many other parks in the Lower Mainland region - assumedly because they haven’t been designated as “Regional Park” they are under a different, more local jurisdiction.