73 photographed places and the films and series recorded here, with sources, access notes and what you can still visit.
Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Vancouver waterfront at False Creek · 2008-04-05 12:27. Location context, not a production still. Resized from an official Commons derivative.The city through culture
On screen in Vancouver.
The most-documented productions in this city's shared records. Music connections for this city are still being researched.
Movies
Deadpool3 sourced claims
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins1 sourced claim
Valiant One1 sourced claim
Television
Virgin River9 sourced claims
Supernatural2 sourced claims
Smallville1 sourced claim
Psych1 sourced claim
Eureka1 sourced claim
The 44001 sourced claim
Look again at a familiar street
Places with stories.
73 reviewed photographs of exact sites. A photograph shows the place today; it is not a production still or a filming position.
Darren Kirby · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Marine Building · 9 April 2010. Location context, not a production still. Resized from an official Commons derivative.Marine Building
Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0 · Vogue Theatre · 2026. Location context, not a production still. Resized from official Commons derivative.Vogue Theatre
Avgolubev · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pacific Central Station · 14 September 2014, 17:51:12. Location context, not a production still. Resized from official Commons derivative.Pacific Central Station
Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0 · Rio Theatre · 2026. Location context, not a production still. Resized from official Commons derivative.Rio Theatre
Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0 · Stanley Theatre · 2025. Location context, not a production still. Resized from official Commons derivative.Stanley Theatre
SamGusway · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Queen Elizabeth Theatre · 12 September 2012, 14:31:37. Location context, not a production still. Resized from official Commons derivative.Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Thomas Roessler · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fairmont Hotel Vancouver · 18 July 2006, 05:07:04 (UTC). Location context, not a production still. Resized from official Commons derivative.Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
Another Believer · CC BY-SA 3.0 · George Wainborn Park · 22 December 2012, 03:25:40. Location context, not a production still. Resized from official Commons derivative.George Wainborn Park
jmv from New Westminster, BC, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Ovaltine Cafe · 18 October 2008, 15:21. Location context, not a production still. Resized from official Commons derivative.Ovaltine Cafe
Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 3.0 · Vancouver Convention Centre · 4 June 2009. Location context, not a production still. Resized from official Commons derivative.Vancouver Convention Centre
Iiii I I I · CC BY 4.0 · Vancouver Aquarium · 13 March 2026, 16:36:51. Location context, not a production still. Resized from official Commons derivative.Vancouver Aquarium
Jef Hitchcock · CC BY 2.0 · Barnet Marine Park · 3 July 2019, 12:08:41. Location context, not a production still. Resized from official Commons derivative.Barnet Marine Park
Colin Knowles from Vancouver · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge · 4 April 2013, 13:40. Location context, not a production still. Resized from official Commons derivative.Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge
Northwest · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Whytecliff Park · 6 October 2023, 13:59:59. Location context, not a production still. Resized from official Commons derivative.Whytecliff Park
Stan Webb · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Distant campus context: Simon Fraser University in the foreground and Mount Baker behind · 11 October 2017. Not a filming-position photograph. Resized from official Commons derivative.Distant campus context: Simon Fraser University in the foreground and Mount Baker behind
Get your bearings
Map & full archive.
Every Place and Moment record, including sites not yet ready for a pin. A marker is a site reference, not a filming position or a route; access and city-boundary status stay as researched.
Existing geography to build from
3 inherited World connections · 10 Place records. These records retain their original research status.
10 matching inherited Place records · 2 remaining source leads
Choose a named place below the map. Pins come from existing subject evidence; they are not a route or a new access certification.
Complete inherited record access
Includes restricted and unmapped-in-this-view records. Map eligibility never removes a record from this list.
The Orpheum · public access
The Orpheum
601 Smithe Street, Vancouver
Described in the place’s facts.
Inherited access advice: A working concert hall: buy a ticket to go in. Reconfirm before visiting.
Inherited access advice: The Vancouver Police Museum is open here Thursday to Saturday 10am–5pm and Sunday noon–5pm until 31 October 2026, its last day in the building. It reopens in mid-November in the Woodward’s building. Reconfirm before visiting.
The old Coroner’s Court, 240 East Cordova Street, April 2007. · Bobanny · Public domain
The Vancouver Police Museum says its building has hosted The X-Files, among other shows and films.
The heritage building once housed the city’s Coroner’s Services and the City Analyst’s Laboratory.
After 40 years here the museum closes the doors for the last time at Halloween 2026 and moves to the Woodward’s building.
Evidence and coordinate precision
building position, inherited from its subject package. Current state: changed.
Inherited access advice: Open daily except Tuesday, 10am–5pm (Fridays until 8pm). Adults $29 for BC residents, $35 otherwise; free on the first Friday of the month, 4–8pm. Reconfirm before visiting.
Inherited access advice: Still a working concert hall: shows on sale through Ticketmaster run from 9 October to 14 November 2026. Reconfirm before visiting.
The Commodore Ballroom sign on Granville Street, July 2009. · Ben Aston · CC BY 2.0
BC Magazine lists the Commodore Ballroom among the Vancouver places where The X-Files was filmed.
Evidence and coordinate precision
building position, inherited from its subject package. Current state: surviving.
In Wetwired, in season three, the 2400 is the Mirador Motel: its neon sign appears twice and its logo is on a book of matches. It is back in season five for The Pine Bluff Variant.
The manager told The Tyee that Scully’s room was 274 and Mulder’s was 127.
The motel was still open in April 2026, with a proposal before the city to replace it with four towers of rental homes.
Evidence and coordinate precision
building position, inherited from its subject package. Current state: surviving.
Inherited access advice: The Skyride leaves from 6400 Nancy Greene Way; check Grouse Mountain’s own site for the day’s conditions. Reconfirm before visiting.
Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve · public access
Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve
Lillooet Road, North Vancouver
Described in the place’s facts.
Inherited access advice: Open every day from 6am; in October the gate at the foot of Lillooet Road closes at 6pm. Over 65 km of trails, including the loop round Rice Lake. Reconfirm before visiting.
Once called the Seymour Demonstration Forest, the reserve appears in 23 episodes across the first five seasons, playing a different place almost every time.
It is Collum National Forest, Oregon, in the pilot; the jungle near Arecibo, Puerto Rico, in Little Green Men; and Siberia in Tunguska and Terma.
Rice Lake, in the reserve, is Scully’s dreamscape in One Breath.
Evidence and coordinate precision
site position, inherited from its subject package. Current state: surviving.
Inherited access advice: The arboretum grounds are open to the public in daylight. The old hospital buildings are closed: look at them from outside. Reconfirm before visiting.
The X-Files shot 13 episodes at Riverview between 1993 and 1996, the pilot, Squeeze, Young at Heart and The Calusari among them. The Crease Clinic is prominent in many exterior shots.
Riverview became a haunted convalescent home in Excelsis Dei, and the two reunion seasons filmed on the grounds too.
The Riverview Horticultural Centre Society says the public is welcome in the arboretum during daylight hours.
Evidence and coordinate precision
site position, inherited from its subject package. Current state: changed.
One record per explicitly reconciled site, with its separate cultural connections. The map starts with sites that have reviewed public visiting conditions. The research view also shows verified approximate site references with restricted or unconfirmed access; these records have no public subject destinations. Only individually reviewed, licensed imagery appears. Unresolved geography remains searchable.
15 of 15 draft site records · 39 of 39 Moments
1 mapped site references · Reviewed public visiting conditions. Private sites and unresolved coordinates are excluded.
Newly reviewed site positions
Approximate site points. These do not identify filming positions, entrances or a travel route. Current restrictions remain attached to each site.
Choose a named site below. These are approximate site positions, not filming viewpoints or entrances.
Historical continuity and current state are still under review. See the individual source notes; no surviving-building claim is inferred.
Current visitor permission and entrance details are not certified. Source notes may distinguish private property, past exhibitions or regional sites.
Regional location at Britannia Beach, outside Vancouver city proper. Treat the museum complex as one site; exact structures used by each production remain unresolved.
Supporting source
PROBABLE · Limited source-review note; does not certify a location pin, current admission or reproduction rights.
Operating museum access is separate from permission to enter filming areas, tunnels or working machinery. Check the museum directly; no admission terms or route are inferred.
Supporting source
PROBABLE · Limited source-review note; does not certify a location pin, current admission or reproduction rights.
Regional Britannia Beach museum complex, not Vancouver city proper. This is the same physical venue as its earlier-production records. Geometry remains unresolved.
Supporting source
PROBABLE · Limited source-review note; does not certify a location pin, current admission or reproduction rights.
Historical continuity and current state are still under review. See the individual source notes; no surviving-building claim is inferred.
Current visitor permission and entrance details are not certified. Source notes may distinguish private property, past exhibitions or regional sites.
Purpose-built in 1993 by Jim Vallance and acquired by Bruce Fairbairn in 1995. His earlier production credits are not proof that those albums were made here. Geometry remains unresolved.
Supporting source
PROBABLE · Limited source-review note; does not certify a location pin, current admission or reproduction rights.
Hinto · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Georgia Viaduct at Main Street, photographed in 2010 according to the file title. Limited-resolution historical street context; not a verified filming camera position.
Geometry unresolved · Access under review
Deadpool
Destination Vancouver identifies the viaduct in the car and motorcycle action sequence. Filming road closures are not visitor access or a safe walking route.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
BC Parks identifies this day-use park beside Highway 99, south of Squamish. Park access does not establish access to the production’s exact camera position.
Check BC Parks advisories before travel; winter services and access can be limited. Stay on designated trails and viewing areas, away from slippery rocks and river edges. No screen route or camera-position pin is inferred.
Supporting source
PROBABLE · Current operator information supports this limited state/access record, not a filming footprint, coordinate or image licence.
Dennis Sylvester Hurd · CC BY 2.0 · Burnaby Fraser Foreshore Park · 5 August 2024, 11:31:53. Riverfront context; no route or exact filming viewpoint is inferred.
Approximate site point — not an entrance · Public visiting — check conditions
Virgin River
The park hosted a food-truck scene. The specific shoot area is unresolved.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
The city identifies the park at 7751 Fraser Park Drive and reports a partial picnic-area/trail closure for hazardous trees. The notice does not establish that the historic filming area is currently accessible.
Use the city’s current closure notice and posted detours. The page lists dawn-to-dusk park hours; do not interpret general park access as clearance for a particular filming footprint. Recheck the seasonal closure before visiting.
Supporting source
PROBABLE · Current operator information supports this limited state/access record, not a filming footprint, coordinate or image licence.
Approximate park site point from the City of Burnaby’s Get directions link. Its explicit Google Maps place target is latitude 49.186777, longitude -122.9922299, rounded to five decimals here. The separate 49.194494/-122.991686 map viewport is not the place target. This is not the film’s food-truck position, an entrance, an accessible route or clearance for the partially closed picnic area.
Supporting source
VERIFIED · Approximate site position only. No entrance, route or camera-position precision.
Historical continuity and current state are still under review. See the individual source notes; no surviving-building claim is inferred.
Current visitor permission and entrance details are not certified. Source notes may distinguish private property, past exhibitions or regional sites.
Hart House picnic areas, Burnaby
Xiao23 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Hart House, formerly Avalon · 23 September 2012, 17:17:51. Restaurant interior context for the historic property; this does not show or locate the picnic areas, establish a filming scene, or guarantee admission.
Geometry unresolved · Access under review
Virgin River
Filming used picnic areas behind Hart House; restaurant interiors are not established here.
Association evidence
PROBABLE · The cited source supports this association. Independent historical verification, exact footprint and canonical subject relationships remain open.
Historical continuity and current state are still under review. See the individual source notes; no surviving-building claim is inferred.
Current visitor permission and entrance details are not certified. Source notes may distinguish private property, past exhibitions or regional sites.
New location research
Source-reviewed leads, held off the map until identity, coordinates and current access are reviewed. No source photographs are reproduced. The search and category controls above also filter this section.
Cobalt Hotel — source identity unresolved
Deadpool · Article names the Cobalt for strip-club exterior, while its accompanying photograph shows Colonial signage. Reconcile before promotion.
Research status and source
single-source location lead; identity/current-state review pending. Coordinates unresolved; no complete access clearance; image rights not secured.
Research candidates, not approved callouts. Launch requires 100 verified locations, 20 reviewed Worlds and three evidence-reviewed, implemented callouts per category.
Movies
DeadpoolResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
Twilight: New MoonResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
Fifty Shades of GreyResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
TV
The X-FilesResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
SupernaturalResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
RiverdaleResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
Music
Bryan AdamsResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
Sarah McLachlanResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
Mother MotherResearch and implementation gates
Specific city connection and canonical World identity
Place / Moment evidence
Coordinate and historical-state review
Image rights and visitor access
Subject implementation and QA
Research boundaries
Metro Vancouver with each municipality named; Britannia Beach is regional.
No transport routes, stays, events or new image permissions are inferred. Existing imagery is reproduced only where the subject package records cleared rights.
Destination research starting point; not evidence for every proposed World.
About this city
Vancouver is a new city on Where It Was and is still growing. Photographs show each place today, not production stills; map markers are site references, not filming positions, and access is as researched, so check before you visit.
Music location collection
Music, in place.
Music videos, cover images and recording history. Each connection links to its source. 5 named locations have supported map pins; locations awaiting coordinates remain below.
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