Book-hunting route · Vancouver
Secret Attic Vintage and 5 more
6 shops · about 14 minutes on foot · 1.0 km
This Vancouver route starts at Secret Attic Vintage on East 1st Street and crosses to West 1st Street three minutes later for Wild Honey Thrift & Vintage. It then picks up Lonsdale Avenue, which carries two stops, Hunter & Hare and The Salvation Army a minute apart, before finishing on West 3rd Street and East 3rd Street at The Good Stuff Connection and, seven minutes on, BookLovers. Six stops in fourteen minutes.
The stops, in walking order
Starts at the end nearest downtown. Times are sidewalk estimates at an easy pace.
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1
Secret Attic Vintage
Secondhand store · East 1st Street
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2
3 min walk
Wild Honey Thrift & VintageSecondhand store · West 1st Street
Sun–Tue 11:00–17:00; Wed–Sat 11:00–18:00
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3
2 min walk
Hunter & HareSecondhand store · Lonsdale Avenue
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4
1 min walk
The Salvation ArmyThrift store · Lonsdale Avenue
Mon–Fri 09:00–21:00; Sat 09:00–17:00
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5
3 min walk
The Good Stuff ConnectionSecondhand store · West 3rd Street
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6
7 min walk
BookLoversUsed bookstore · East 3rd Street
Mon–Sat 11:00–18:00; Sun 12:00–17:00
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Other routes in Vancouver
- Main Street run 5 shops · ~12 min
- Main Street run (part 2) 3 shops · ~4 min
- Granville Street run 3 shops · ~17 min
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.
See all thrift stores in Vancouver, or read our guide to finding good books in charity shops.
Nearby: Thrift stores in Surrey· Thrift stores in Nanaimo· Thrift stores in Abbotsford· Thrift stores in Victoria
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