Filmed in Vancouver: 16 Locations You Can Visit + Map (2026)
Deadpool, Last of Us, Storybrooke, Twilight park: 16 visitable Vancouver locations with addresses, SkyTrain, a map and what's shooting this week.
You have seen Vancouver hundreds of times without knowing it. This city has played New York, Seattle, Chicago, Caprica and the end of the world, and it is still one of the largest production centres in North America. Below are 16 locations you can actually stand on — address, nearest station, whether it costs anything, and what the crews did there. Looking for one particular show? Start with the title deep dives or the A–Z index of all 43 titles. Every fact is checked against a source we link. We do not publish film stills — those belong to the studios — and we do not publish where anyone lives.
180+
titles shot at Riverview alone
15
seasons of Supernatural, all here
16
visitable spots on this page
43
titles indexed at those spots
1993
the X-Files pilot — it started here
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🎥 Filming in Vancouver right now
As of October 12, 2026, productions registered as shooting in Metro Vancouver include Anaheim Realm (S1), Calm Current (S3), Blue Skies (S2), Fire Country (S5), When Calls The Heart (S14), Fender (S1), The Rookie: North (S1) and Allegiance (S4) (source: Creative BC in-production list).
💡 This list is rebuilt from the official Creative BC in-production registry every Monday morning. If the registry is unreachable, the previous week's text stays up rather than showing you nothing.
🎞 Deep dives by title
Each of these is its own page — a walking order, the spots that are not visitable, and the FAQ Google actually asks. They do not copy the cards below.
Every location below, pinned. Tap a pin for the productions and jump to its entry. Switch to satellite with the control in the corner.
🔴 Action & superhero🟣 Sci-fi & comic-book🔵 Horror & mystery🟢 Drama & cult TV
🎬 The locations, one by one
Ordered roughly by how far they are from downtown. The left-hand frame, where we have one, is a freely licensed photograph of the actual shoot — not a still from the film.
On the shootThere today
🔴 Action & superhero · Downtown Vancouver
Georgia Viaduct
Free public access🚇 Stadium–Chinatown Station (Expo Line)
On screen. The opening freeway ambush. Wade steps off the overpass into a moving SUV, and the whole sequence returns here through the film. The tangle of interchanges and the sign names (Ditko Avenue, Wernick Parkway — nods to the comic's creators) are CGI. The road is not.
There today. An ordinary eastbound overpass carrying traffic out of downtown, between Rogers Arena and Quebec Street. The City closed it to traffic 5 a.m.–3 p.m. on weekdays from 5 to 18 April 2015 so the unit could shoot.
📍 Georgia Viaduct, between Beatty St and Main St, Vancouver · open in Maps
🚇 Stadium–Chinatown Station (Expo Line) — 4 min walk to the west end
🎟 Public road, sidewalk both sides, free
📸 Shoot from the Beatty Street end looking east: the deck lines up with the downtown towers. Both viaducts are slated for removal under the city's Northeast False Creek plan — check before you build a trip around them.
On screen. The single most-filmed site in the Pacific Northwest — IMDb lists over 180 titles. It is the lab where Wade Wilson becomes Deadpool, the Silver Acres retirement home in Happy Gilmore, and the haunted seniors' home Mulder and Scully investigate in 'Excelsis Dei'. The X-Files came back thirteen times between 1993 and 1996, including the pilot and 'Squeeze'. Deadpool 2 staged its opening and closing battles at Centre Lawn.
There today. A 244-hectare campus of empty 1910s–1950s institutional buildings and one of Canada's great arboretums, renamed səmiq̓ʷəʔelə in 2021 in partnership with the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm Nation. Crews are often on site; you will see the yellow signs.
🚇 Braid Station then bus 159, or drive — parking on site
🎟 Grounds open 6 a.m.–9 p.m., 7 days, free. Buildings are closed: entering one is trespassing and is reported to the RCMP. No drones.
📸 Personal photography is fine in the common areas, but not of any area under film licence, and not of residents — people still live and work here. Organised or commercial shoots need written BC Housing permission.
On screen. Moncton Street is Storybrooke's main street, and the fishing harbour is Storybrooke Pier. Granny's Diner is the Cannery Café at 3711 Moncton St; Mr. Gold's Pawn Shop is the storefront at 3480 Moncton St; the Storybrooke Library exterior is the Steveston Antique Mall. Interiors were shot on a soundstage — only the fronts are real.
There today. A working fishing village with boats selling off the dock, the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site, and the same shopfronts. The Cannery Café still serves Granny's chowder.
📍 Moncton St at 3rd Ave, Steveston, Richmond · open in Maps
🚇 Canada Line to Richmond–Brighouse, then bus 401/402/407 (~20 min)
🎟 Public street, free. Cafés and shops are real businesses — buy something.
📸 Late afternoon: the street lamps along Moncton come on while there is still light on the water, which is exactly the look the show used for its evening scenes. Combine it with a whale-watching trip from the same docks.
On screen. Arthur Erickson's raw-concrete quadrangle is Caprica City. It is the Riverwalk Market in the Battlestar Galactica miniseries and again in 'Epiphanies'; Helo shoots Sharon on the steps just outside in 'Kobol's Last Gleaming'; and Laura Roslin swims in the quadrangle pond in 'Daybreak'. Before that it was the Tollan homeworld in Stargate SG-1 and the Washington D.C. square in The X-Files episode 'Fallen Angel'.
There today. A working university campus, 365 m up Burnaby Mountain, usually wrapped in its own weather. The pond and the koi are back.
🚇 Production Way–University Station (Millennium Line), then bus 145 to the top (~15 min)
🎟 Campus is open to the public, free. Term time gets busy — weekends are empty.
📸 Overcast is the right weather here. Flat grey light is what made the concrete read as an alien city on camera, and it is what you will get most of the year anyway.
On screen. The Daily Planet in Smallville and the Baxter Building in both Fantastic Four films. Jitters, the coffee shop in The Flash. A bank in Watchmen, a digital bank in Caprica, and the closing scene of Timecop. Altered Carbon used the lobby as a character's home.
There today. A 1930 Art Deco tower, briefly the tallest in the British Empire, encrusted in terracotta seahorses, crabs and zeppelins. Still an ordinary working office building.
🎟 Lobby is free to enter during business hours and photography is allowed. No tours, no observation deck — the 25-cent deck closed in the Depression.
📸 Go inside for the brass elevator doors and the inlaid hardwood, then cross Burrard and shoot the crown from the west side in late afternoon — that is when the terracotta turns gold.
On screen. Moshe Safdie's colosseum was the Replacement Technologies cloning HQ in The 6th Day, Caprica City in Battlestar Galactica's 'Bastille Day', and — twice — the alternate-universe Fringe Division headquarters, in 'Olivia' and in the series finale 'Liberty'. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus closes in the entrance hall.
There today. The busiest library in the city, with a free rooftop garden on level 9 that most visitors never find.
On screen. Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. The castle first played the X-Mansion in the 1996 TV film Generation X, and has done it ever since — through X2, The Last Stand, and both Deadpool films. On the DC side it is Lex Luthor's mansion in Smallville and the Queen family home in Arrow. Ryan Reynolds shot here in costume in 2017 and posted about it from the lawn.
There today. A 1908 Dunsmuir estate on 565 acres above Esquimalt Lagoon, now the administration building of Royal Roads University — a working office, not a museum.
🚇 BC Ferries Tsawwassen → Swartz Bay, then ~45 min by car. A full day trip from Vancouver.
🎟 Gardens open daily 10 a.m. to dusk. The castle interior is guided tour only (~1 hour, first floor): adult $24, senior $20, youth $15, family $74 plus GST, tickets sold on the day at the basement shop. No drones, no dogs in the gated gardens.
📸 The face everyone recognises is the garden side, not the entrance. Walk through the garden booth on College Drive and shoot back at the castle with the lawn in front — that is the X-Men frame.
On screen. Lake Manitoc, where the drownings happen in Supernatural's third-ever episode, 'Dead in the Water'. Carlton's dock is the north side of the lake. It has been standing in for 'a lake somewhere in America' for thirty years.
There today. A BC Hydro reservoir ringed by second-growth forest, with a swimming beach, a 10 km loop trail and a floating bridge.
📍 Buntzen Lake Recreation Area, Sunnyside Rd, Anmore · open in Maps
🚇 No direct transit — drive (~50 min from downtown). The gate closes at dusk and the lot fills by 10 a.m. on summer weekends.
🎟 Free, day-use only, gated hours vary by season
📸 North Beach is the Supernatural side and it is a 40-minute walk from the main lot — most people never get there, which is exactly why it still looks like the episode.
On screen. Where Supernatural ended. The series finale shot Dean's funeral pyre in the park in September 2020, with the Akron Pie Fest staged at Burnaby Village Museum next door. The house at 6450 Deer Lake Drive turns up as far back as season 1.
There today. A lake, a heritage village with a working 1912 carousel, and the Shadbolt Centre — 15 minutes from downtown by SkyTrain and a short walk.
On screen. Victorian brick, cobbles and fire escapes that can be dressed as New York, Chicago, Star City or 'anywhere, USA'. Between them, the Arrowverse shows and Supernatural have shot here hundreds of times.
There today. The oldest part of the city: the steam clock at Water and Cambie, cast-iron lamps, and a lot of restaurants. Bryan Adams' recording studio is a few blocks east on Powell.
📸 Wet cobbles are the whole point. Shoot after rain, at night, looking east down Water Street with the lamps receding — that is the frame every location scout books this street for.
On screen. The 300 and 400 blocks of West Cordova were dressed as overgrown, abandoned Seattle for The Last of Us season 2 in August 2024 — picture vehicles, graffiti, debris and plants in the roadway. Arch Alley off Victory Square was the second unit that week. Harbour Green Park at 1199 West Cordova was closed 25–27 July 2024 for the same production (working title Mega Sword). Season 3 returned to the 300-block laneway in March 2026 under the working title Calm Current.
There today. Ordinary Gastown-edge streetscape: brick warehouses, the old Woodward's block, and people walking to Waterfront Station. Nothing of the set remains. If yellow paper signs are on the lampposts, a crew is back — stay behind the tape.
📍 300–400 blocks W Cordova St, Vancouver · open in Maps
🚇 Waterfront Station (Expo/Canada Line/SeaBus) — 4 min walk
🎟 Public street, free. Active film sets are closed; do not photograph anything under film licence.
📸 The 'there today' shot is the brick at 310–320 West Cordova from the south sidewalk, looking west. Golden hour, after rain, is when the street reads as the show's Seattle. If trailers are parked, walk on.
On screen. The 1906 neoclassical courthouse has played courthouses, city halls and museums for decades. Godzilla, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and I, Robot all rebuilt their cities around this block, and the Fifty Shades trilogy used downtown Vancouver as its 'Seattle'.
There today. The Vancouver Art Gallery, with the north plaza on Georgia Street that doubles as the city's protest square and outdoor living room.
🚇 Vancouver City Centre or Burrard Station — 3 min walk
🎟 Plaza and steps free and always open; gallery ticketed
📸 The Georgia Street steps face north, so they sit in even light all day — which is why crews like them. For the full facade, shoot from the Robson Square side.
On screen. When Twilight moved north for New Moon and Eclipse, this is the country it moved into — coastal rainforest, low cloud and mountain water standing in for the Olympic Peninsula. The corridor has doubled as backwoods America in dozens of shows since.
There today. Highway 99 from Horseshoe Bay to Squamish, one of the great coastal drives, with pull-offs the whole way. Porteau Cove is the first easy one.
📍 Porteau Cove Provincial Park, Hwy 99 · open in Maps
🚇 No transit. Drive, or take the Squamish Connector coach.
🎟 Provincial park, free day use, paid parking in summer
📸 Overcast and drizzle is the correct weather — it is what the films used, and the water goes pewter. Bright sun makes it look like the Mediterranean, which is the wrong film.
On screen. When Twilight moved north for New Moon and Eclipse, Minnekhada's marsh, forest and knoll stood in for the Olympic Peninsula woods around La Push. Outdoor Eclipse scenes were shot on the park trails. The lodge itself is a 1934 hunting lodge that has also hosted other productions; it is not the Cullen house.
There today. A Metro Vancouver regional park: two lakes, a marsh, the Low Knoll lookout, and Minnekhada Lodge (opened to the public on posted days). The houses used as the Cullen, Swan and Black residences are private homes in West Vancouver, Surrey and Coquitlam — they are not in this park, and they are not visitable.
📍 Minnekhada Regional Park, Quarry Rd, Coquitlam · open in Maps
🚇 No useful transit. Drive (~45 min from downtown). Parking at the Lodge and Mid-Park lots.
🎟 Park free, dawn to dusk. Lodge interior only on posted public days. Stay on trails; the surrounding houses are private.
📸 Low Knoll at last light is the frame: marsh in front, Coast Mountains behind, the same overcast the films used. Do not go looking for Jacob's house on Gilleys Trail — it is a lived-in home.
On screen. Not a set — an establishing shot. The geodesic dome and the False Creek towers are the giveaway in hundreds of 'we are in an American city' cutaways. Once you learn to spot it, you see Vancouver in everything.
There today. A science museum in the Expo 86 dome, with a free seawall running past it in both directions.
🚇 Main Street–Science World Station (Expo Line) — 2 min walk
🎟 Seawall free and always open; museum ticketed
📸 Blue hour from the Cambie Bridge or the north side of the creek: the dome lights come on and the towers reflect. That is the postcard the establishing shots are imitating.
On screen. Rocko's Diner at 32786 Lougheed Highway was Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe for the Riverdale pilot. After the series was picked up, production built a replica on a Langley backlot — that set is not public. The Mission post office also stood in for Riverdale's small-town civic buildings. The photograph is the post office, which you can stand in front of; Rocko's is a working 24-hour diner a few minutes away.
There today. A Fraser Valley city on the West Coast Express. Rocko's still serves milkshakes named after Archie, Betty and Veronica, and a Jughead burger. The Langley backlot is behind a studio fence — do not go looking for it.
📍 Rocko's Diner, 32786 Lougheed Hwy, Mission; post office in downtown Mission · open in Maps
🚇 West Coast Express to Mission City (~1 h from Waterfront), then a short cab, or drive (~1 h 15).
🎟 Rocko's is a public restaurant (buy a meal). Post office exterior is a public sidewalk. The Langley Pop's set is private.
📸 Go for the diner, not a pilgrimage around town. Sit at the counter, order a shake, and treat it as a restaurant that happened to be on television for one episode — because that is what it is.
43 productions — 22 films and 21 series — shot at least one scene at a location on this page. Tap a title to jump to the spots it used; the year and the linked title go to its Wikipedia entry. Sorted the way an index is, so The X-Files sits under X.
Yellow paper signs zip-tied to lampposts, printed with a two- or three-letter code, are crew directions to that day's set — follow them and you will find the trucks. Rows of white trailers and a catering tent confirm it. Then behave: stay behind the tape, do not photograph anything under film licence, do not approach cast, and never enter a building you are not invited into. Vancouver keeps getting productions partly because locals are relaxed about them. Do not be the reason a street gets closed to fans.
⭐ Vancouver's own
Hollywood North exports people too. We do not publish where anyone lives or where you might bump into them — that is guesswork and it is creepy. Each entry ends with a real, public place genuinely tied to that person.
Ryan Reynolds
📍 Born in Vancouver, 1976 — grew up in Kitsilano
Deadpool · The Proposal · Free Guy
Went to Kitsilano Secondary, started on the Vancouver-shot teen soap Hillside at sixteen, and came home to make the film that defined him. Deadpool shut the Georgia Viaduct for two weeks in April 2015; he publicly thanked commuters for it.
🎬 Georgia Viaduct and Hatley Castle — both in the map below
Seth Rogen
📍 Born in Vancouver, 1982 — Point Grey
Superbad · Pineapple Express · The Studio
Did stand-up in Vancouver comedy clubs as a thirteen-year-old and wrote the first draft of Superbad while still at Point Grey Secondary. He later recorded transit-etiquette announcements for TransLink, so the city literally speaks in his voice.
🎬 TransLink SkyTrain — you may hear him ask you to move down the car
Michael J. Fox
📍 Born in Edmonton, raised in Burnaby
Back to the Future · Family Ties · Spin City
Moved to Burnaby as a child and left for Los Angeles at eighteen. His old school district named its performing arts theatre after him, and his foundation has become the largest non-profit funder of Parkinson's research in the world.
🎬 Michael J. Fox Theatre, 7373 MacPherson Ave, Burnaby — a working 613-seat venue
Cobie Smulders
📍 Born in Vancouver, 1982
How I Met Your Mother · The Avengers
Robin Scherbatsky was written as Canadian because Smulders is — the show leaned into it for nine seasons. She was modelling in Vancouver before acting, and turned down medical school for it.
🎬 Vancouver-born; Marvel's Maria Hill in six films
Finn Wolfhard
📍 Born in Vancouver, 2002
Stranger Things · IT · Ghostbusters
Cast as Mike Wheeler off a self-taped audition from his Vancouver bedroom at twelve. He has kept a foot in the local scene ever since — bands, indie film, and a directing debut.
🎬 Vancouver-born and still Vancouver-based
Carrie-Anne Moss
📍 Born in Burnaby, 1967
The Matrix · Memento · Jessica Jones
Grew up in Burnaby and Vancouver and was in the Vancouver Children's Musical Theatre before modelling took her to Europe. Trinity's opening scene is still one of the most-copied shots in action cinema.
🎬 Burnaby-born
Joshua Jackson
📍 Born in Vancouver, 1978
Dawson's Creek · Fringe · The Affair
Vancouver-raised, cast in The Mighty Ducks at thirteen. Fringe brought him back to shoot in the city for five seasons — including at the Central Library, which played his show's alternate-universe headquarters.
🎬 Vancouver Public Library — Fringe Division HQ, in the map below
Hayden Christensen
📍 Born in Vancouver, 1981 — raised in Ontario
Star Wars: Episodes II & III · Obi-Wan Kenobi
Born in Vancouver before the family moved east. Anakin Skywalker, and then twenty years later Darth Vader again for Disney+.
🎬 Vancouver-born
Michael Bublé
📍 Born in Burnaby, 1975
Crazy Love · Christmas · four Grammys
Sang in Vancouver clubs and at shopping-mall gigs for a decade before anyone noticed. He stayed: he has been a part-owner of the WHL's Vancouver Giants since 2008 and turns up at their games.
🎬 Vancouver Giants, Langley Events Centre — tickets are about $20
Bryan Adams
📍 Raised in North Vancouver
Reckless · Summer of '69 · (Everything I Do)
Washed dishes and played the Vancouver bar circuit as a teenager. He bought a heritage block in Gastown and turned it into The Warehouse Studio, where Nirvana, The Cult, AC/DC and Elvis Costello have all recorded.
🎬 The Warehouse Studio, 66 Powell St, Gastown — private, but you can see the building
Pamela Anderson
📍 Born in Ladysmith, BC, 1967
Baywatch · The Last Showgirl
Discovered in the most Canadian way possible: a camera operator put her on the jumbotron at a BC Lions game at BC Place in 1989, the crowd reacted, and Labatt signed her that week.
🎬 BC Place — the jumbotron is still there
Kim Cattrall
📍 Raised in Courtenay, Vancouver Island
Sex and the City · Mannequin · Big Trouble in Little China
Born in Liverpool, brought to Vancouver Island as a baby, and trained at LAMDA before Hollywood. She has kept talking about her BC childhood for forty years.
🎬 Courtenay, Vancouver Island — a ferry and a drive north
Sarah McLachlan
📍 Moved to Vancouver at 19 and stayed
Surfacing · Angel · founder of Lilith Fair
Signed to a Vancouver label at nineteen and never left. In 2002 she founded the Sarah McLachlan School of Music in the city, which gives free music education to kids who could not otherwise get it.
🎬 Sarah McLachlan School of Music, 1305 Station St, Vancouver
Jason Priestley
📍 Born in North Vancouver, 1969
Beverly Hills, 90210 · Private Eyes
A North Vancouver kid doing local commercials from the age of four. 90210 made him the face of American high school; he has directed far more television than he ever starred in.
🎬 North Vancouver-born
Grace Park
📍 Raised in Vancouver
Battlestar Galactica · Hawaii Five-0 · A Million Little Things
Grew up in Vancouver and studied psychology at UBC. Then she shot Battlestar Galactica here for four years — including on the SFU quadrangle that played Caprica City.
🎬 SFU Academic Quadrangle — Caprica City, in the map below
Evangeline Lilly
📍 Studied at UBC in Vancouver
Lost · The Hobbit · Ant-Man
Was reading international relations at the University of British Columbia, doing background work to pay tuition, when a casting agent stopped her. Two years later she was Kate on Lost.
🎬 UBC Point Grey campus — free to walk, and a filming location in its own right
🎭 Not from here — but they practically lived here
Actors who spent years of their working life in Metro Vancouver because their show did.
David Duchovny
📍 Lived in Vancouver 1993–1998
The X-Files
Spent five years shooting Mulder in the Vancouver rain and famously complained about it until the production moved to Los Angeles. The rain is why the show looks the way it does.
🎬 Riverview and Gastown — both in the map below
Gillian Anderson
📍 Lived in Vancouver 1993–1998
The X-Files · The Crown · Sex Education
Was 24 and almost unknown when The X-Files started shooting here. Her daughter was born in Vancouver during season two, and the pregnancy was written into the show's mythology.
🎬 Riverview — thirteen X-Files episodes shot there
Jensen Ackles
📍 Based in Vancouver 2005–2020
Supernatural · The Boys
Fifteen seasons is the longest run of any North American live-action fantasy series, and almost all of it was shot in Metro Vancouver. He raised his family here for most of it.
🎬 Deer Lake Park — where the finale was filmed
Jared Padalecki
📍 Based in Vancouver 2005–2020
Supernatural · Gilmore Girls · Walker
Sam Winchester for fifteen years. The final scene of the series was shot at the Spur 4 Bridge in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve in North Vancouver.
🎬 Deer Lake Park and Burnaby Village Museum
Pedro Pascal
📍 Filmed in BC, 2024
The Last of Us · The Mandalorian
The Last of Us moved from Alberta to British Columbia for its second season, which put Pascal on Metro Vancouver streets through most of 2024.
🎬 Metro Vancouver — The Last of Us season 2
Bella Ramsey
📍 Filmed in BC, 2024
The Last of Us · Game of Thrones
Ellie's second season was shot across British Columbia, from Vancouver neighbourhoods to the interior — a production big enough to be visible in the city's monthly filming notices.
🎬 Metro Vancouver — The Last of Us season 2
🎤 See a star live: concerts & big shows
Vancouver is a fixed stop on every major world tour — and hometown acts like Bryan Adams and Michael Bublé play emotional home shows. Where the big nights happen:
Rogers Arena
The Canucks' 18,000-seat home hosts the biggest arena tours downtown. Event calendar →
BC Place
54,500 seats for stadium acts — and the stadium whose jumbotron discovered Pamela Anderson. What's on →
Commodore Ballroom
The 1929 sprung-floor club on Granville — U2, Nirvana and almost everyone else played it on the way up. Shows →
Orpheum
A 1927 National Historic Site — and Baltar's opera-house vision in Battlestar Galactica. Calendar →
🏨 Sleep and eat on the same streets
Not “where the stars hang out” — those lists are guesses. These are public dining rooms and hotels in the downtown blocks the cameras actually use. The Stay22 map further down is live rates; the three names here are the ones people search. Guided city loops (Gastown, North Shore, the viaduct end): GetYourGuide Vancouver tours.
Rosewood Hotel Georgia
801 W Georgia St — across from the Art Gallery steps that doubled as courthouses and city halls.
Because it is one of the largest film and television production centres in North America, behind Los Angeles and New York. Tax credits, a deep crew base, studio capacity and scenery that can double for almost any city or wilderness have pulled productions here since the 1970s.
Can I actually visit Vancouver filming locations?
Most of them, yes, and free. Gastown, the Vancouver Art Gallery steps, the Central Library, the Marine Building lobby, Steveston Village and the Georgia Viaduct are all public. The exceptions on this page are Riverview, where the grounds are open 6 a.m.–9 p.m. but the buildings are closed, and Hatley Castle, where the gardens are open but the interior is guided tour only.
Where was Deadpool filmed in Vancouver?
The opening freeway ambush was shot on the Georgia Viaduct, which the City closed on weekdays from 5 to 18 April 2015. The laboratory where Wade Wilson is experimented on is Riverview in Coquitlam, and the X-Mansion is Hatley Castle near Victoria. The interchange itself is CGI — the road is real.
Where is Storybrooke from Once Upon a Time?
Steveston Village in Richmond, about 40 minutes south of downtown. Granny's Diner is the Cannery Café at 3711 Moncton Street, Mr. Gold's Pawn Shop is the storefront at 3480 Moncton Street, and the harbour is Storybrooke Pier. Only the exteriors are real; interiors were soundstage sets.
What is the most-filmed place in British Columbia?
səmiq̓ʷəʔelə, the former Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam. IMDb lists over 180 titles shot there, from the X-Files pilot to Deadpool 2. The grounds are open to the public daily; entering the buildings is trespassing and is reported to the RCMP.
What is filming in Vancouver right now?
The live block near the top of this page is rebuilt every Monday from the official Creative BC in-production registry, so it lists the productions actually registered as shooting this week.
Can you visit the Twilight house in Vancouver?
No. The Cullen house used in New Moon and Eclipse is a private West Vancouver home, and Jacob's house on Gilleys Trail is a private Coquitlam home. Do not go. The public stand-in is Minnekhada Regional Park — trails, marsh, Low Knoll — plus Porteau Cove on the Sea-to-Sky. The first Twilight film was Oregon, not here.
Where was The Last of Us filmed in Vancouver?
Season 2 dressed the 300 and 400 blocks of West Cordova, Arch Alley at Victory Square and Harbour Green Park as post-apocalyptic Seattle in 2024. Season 3 (working title Calm Current) was back on the same Cordova block in March 2026. The vines and wrecked cars are gone; the brick is not.
Where is Pop's from Riverdale?
The pilot used Rocko's Diner at 32786 Lougheed Highway in Mission — a working 24-hour restaurant. Later seasons used a Langley backlot that is not public. Eat at Rocko's; do not hunt the studio fence.
Where does Ryan Reynolds eat in Vancouver?
We do not publish guessed hangouts. What is on the record: he grew up in Kitsilano, went to Kitsilano Secondary, and thanked the city for closing the Georgia Viaduct for Deadpool. For a downtown dinner in the same neighbourhoods crews use, Blue Water Cafe, Hawksworth and Vij's take reservations like any other dining room — not because we claim a star will be at the next table.
Make a movie day of it
Downtown gives you six of these within a twenty-minute walk: the Marine Building, the Art Gallery steps, the Central Library, Gastown, West Cordova (The Last of Us) and the Georgia Viaduct. Add Stanley Park for the skyline every director uses, then give a second day to Steveston / Storybrooke. Plan around it with our itineraries, the transit guide and things to do.
Prices on this page are estimates for planning and can change — check the operator, venue or booking site before you pay.
Who writes this
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