Book-hunting route · Courtenay

Island Traders and 5 more

6 shops · about 19 minutes on foot · 1.4 km

The Courtenay run starts at Island Traders and covers six stops in about nineteen minutes of walking. Four minutes on is Too Good To Be Threw on 6th Street, and Second Page Used Books on Duncan Avenue follows a couple of stops later. The walk ends eleven minutes on, at This 'n' That.

Open the route in Google Maps Walking directions, stop by stop. The line above follows the streets, routed on OpenStreetMap data.

The stops, in walking order

Starts at the end nearest downtown. Times are sidewalk estimates at an easy pace.

  1. 1 Island Traders

    Secondhand store

  2. 2

    4 min walk

    Too Good To Be Threw

    Secondhand store · 6th Street

  3. 3

    2 min walk

    Sweet Salvage Consignment

    Secondhand store

    Mon,Sun 11:00–15:00; Tue–Sat 10:00–17:00

  4. 4

    2 min walk

    Second Page Used Books

    Used bookstore · Duncan Avenue

  5. 5

    2 min walk

    Isla Consignment

    Secondhand store

    Tue–Sat 10:00–16:30, Sun 10:00–15:00

  6. 6

    11 min walk

    This 'n' That

    Secondhand store

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How the route is built

Shops within about 400 metres of the next one count as one run, walked from the end nearest downtown. Long runs are cut into legs of ten stops or fewer. The distance follows the streets; the minutes are an easy-pace estimate. Opening hours are whatever OpenStreetMap has on record: check the smaller stores before you set out.

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