The best-known lighthouses in British Columbia
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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The lighthouses around Victoria are the easy ones: Fisgard Lighthouse is 3 km from Esquimalt, Trial Islands Lighthouse (1970) 6 km from Victoria, Race Rocks Lighthouse 15 km from Colwood and Sheringham Point Lighthouse 14 km from Sooke. On the mainland, Point Atkinson Lighthouse (1912) is 8 km from West Vancouver and Brockton Point Lighthouse 4 km from North Vancouver. Up the coast: Amphitrite Point, Cape Beale, Estevan Point, Cape Scott and Langara Point, most with no town nearby.
Of the 56 lighthouses RLQuest knows in British Columbia, 19 have a Wikipedia article, and many sit on islands or remote points. The ones near Victoria, Nanaimo and Vancouver are the realistic quests. RLQuest checks a visit against your recorded route, so a lighthouse you can see across the water does not count until you stand at it.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
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RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
