Butchart Gardens
A floral display garden in Brentwood Bay on Vancouver Island, near Victoria. It grew from a worked out limestone quarry and now receives over a million visitors each year. The gardens are designated a National Historic Site of Canada.
- Where
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 48.5653, -123.4694
Get the Butchart Gardens stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Butchart Gardens. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your British Columbia volume with your photos and a note.
Near Butchart Gardens
British Columbia Parliament Buildings 18 km
The home of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and of the lieutenant governor, standing on Victoria's Inner Harbour. The domed stone building, finished in the 1890s, is outlined in thousands of lights at night.
Royal British Columbia Museum 18 km
A history museum in Victoria, founded in 1886. It received its Royal title from Queen Elizabeth II, conferred by Prince Philip in 1987 during a royal tour, and it holds natural history and human history collections of the province.
Craigdarroch Castle 18 km
A Victorian era Scottish baronial mansion in Victoria, British Columbia. It is designated a National Historic Site of Canada because of its landmark status, and it is now open as a historic house museum.
Granville Island 82 km
A peninsula and shopping district in Vancouver's Fairview neighbourhood, across False Creek from downtown and under the Granville Street Bridge. Once an industrial manufacturing area, it now holds a public market, studios, theatres and small galleries.
Science World 83 km
A science centre at the eastern end of False Creek in Vancouver, run by a not for profit society. It has permanent interactive exhibits and visiting displays inside a large geodesic dome.
Vancouver Art Gallery 84 km
An art museum in a 15,300 square metre building next to Robson Square in downtown Vancouver. It is the largest art museum in Western Canada by size, and it has a strong collection of works by Emily Carr.
Gastown 84 km
The original settlement that became the core of Vancouver, now a National Historic Site and a neighbourhood next to downtown. Its cobbled streets hold Victorian warehouses, shops and a steam powered clock.
Stanley Park 85 km
A 405 hectare park on the tip of the Vancouver peninsula, ringed by a seawall path about 9 kilometres long. It holds old forest, beaches, the Vancouver Aquarium and a group of totem poles at Brockton Point.
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Questions
Where is Butchart Gardens?
Butchart Gardens is in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are British Columbia Parliament Buildings (18 km), Royal British Columbia Museum (18 km), Craigdarroch Castle (18 km).
How do I get the Butchart Gardens stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Butchart Gardens and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your British Columbia volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Butchart Gardens before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your British Columbia volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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