Explore Mount Gardner, British Columbia, Canada, with this interactive street and satellite map. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above the map to switch views. You can “grab” the map and drag it to re-centre it, or use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours — plus shaded relief, a labelled UTM grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
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This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Mount Gardner, British Columbia. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of British Columbia or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Mount Gardner and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the Canada Base Map from Natural Resources Canada with Toporama contours layered over it — the CanVec topographic data behind the printed NTS sheets, and the mapping used for hiking, hunting, canoe routes and back-country travel. Relief shows shaded relief and hypsometric tints. The search box finds any Canadian town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Mount Gardner.
Reading the map like a paper NTS sheet. Click Grid to overlay the UTM grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass — which matters in Canada, where declination runs from about 20 degrees west in Newfoundland to 20 degrees east in the Yukon.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what Canadian search and rescue work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Place | Mount Gardner |
| Type | Locality |
| Province / Territory | British Columbia (BC) |
| Location | New Westminster Land District |
| Country | Canada |
| Latitude | 49.4 |
| Longitude | -123.38333 |
| Postal Code (FSA) | V7W |
| Area Code | 236, 250, 604, 672, 778 |
| Importance | Town |
| CGN ID | JCRLQ |
Mount Gardner is a locality in New Westminster Land District, British Columbia, Canada. It is classified as a town. Mount Gardner is located at 49.4000°N, 123.3833°W.
Mount Gardner rises with a quiet, stubborn prominence above the Pacific coast, its slopes catching the salt-heavy light that defines the New Westminster Land District. It lies 24.9 km north-west of Vancouver, BC (from Vancouver, BC: bearing 308°T), and is situated 6.1 km north-north-east of Bowen Bay. The terrain here holds a rugged solitude, characterized by the proximity of the Stony Hill, where the earth seems to lean toward the sea. Killarney Lake rests in a shallow basin only 2 km away, its surface often mirroring the low, grey clouds that drift in from the ocean. While the Rainy River flows some 15 km distant and Cypress Falls waits 12 km inland, the atmosphere around Mount Gardner stays concentrated on the immediate, tactile experience of rock and timber. At dusk, the air turns sharp and thin, cooling the dense greenery that clings to the hillsides like a heavy, dark velvet. Human presence around Mount Gardner has long followed the contours of the coastline, reflecting a history rooted in resourcefulness and the slow, steady extraction of value from the forest. The economy remains tethered to the cycles of the coast, where the work of the day is measured by the tides and the shifting haul of the morning. Local traditions persist in the quiet maintenance of trails and the shared knowledge of the woods, far removed from the clamor of larger, distant centers. Even with Crescent Glacier positioned 43 km away, a reminder of the vast, frozen heights of the mainland, the life found on Mount Gardner feels complete in its own scale. There is a particular stillness in the late afternoon here, when the shadows stretch long across the slope and the sound of the wind through the pines becomes the only language the land requires.
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Explore Mount Gardner, British Columbia, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 49.4, -123.38333. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Detailed location data for Mount Gardner includes the postal code (V7W), telephone area code (236, 250, 604, 672, 778). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Canadian town, county or landmark by name; offers the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours and shaded relief as base layers; overlays a labelled UTM grid so the map can be read like a printed NTS sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data for Mount Gardner is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; Canada Base Map, Toporama and CBME © Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence — Canada); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |