Cypress Lookout
Sweeping ridgetop lookout with panoramic views over the city skyline, harbour and strait beyond.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cypress Lookout in Vancouver follows Dave Barrett, a young provincial politician who in 1964 asked a blunt question in the Victoria legislature about the mountainside above you, already marked for logging and houses. It traces the eight years he kept pressing the point from the backbench, and what changed when his role in government did. You'll hear why locals still call this exact ledge by his name. Stand at the viewpoint facing the Lions Gate Bridge and Stanley Park to take it in.
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