Richmond is known throughout the Greater Vancouver region for its quality parks, leisure facilities, and recreation services. Richmond has over 1200 acres of park land and a variety of recreational amenities, including pools, arenas, community centers, tennis courts, playgrounds, picnic areas, golf courses, lacrosse boxes, running tracks and playing fields. The City also maintains a system of interconnecting perimeter dyke trails which provide for a variety of recreational opportunities as well as scenic views of the North Shore.

  With a population of 175,000 people, Richmond is a growing dynamic urban centre with a unique mix of residential, and commercial property, agricultural lands, industrial parks, waterways and natural areas. It is interesting to note that, according to Statistics Canada, residents of Richmond have the greatest life expectancy in all of Canada. The agency recently reported people in Richmond have the lowest smoking and obesity rates in the country and live an average of 81.2 years, almost three years longer than the National average of 78.3 years.

  Richmond is the home of Vancouver International Airport and two International Seaports. Richmond is connected to neighboring Lower Mainland cities by a series of bridges and a tunnel. There are two major freeways feeding into Richmond and two railway lines. Richmond is truly a major centre of commercial activity.

Whether you are coming to shop, dine, golf, ski, play on the beach or just relax, Richmond offers the BEST of everything. There are hundreds of shops and places to eat, drink, play and relax.

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25-30 minute drive into Downtown