About Urbex in British Columbia
Urbex Planet is a community-driven map and platform for urban exploration and discovering abandoned places. Browse curated urban exploration locations (aka urbex locations), contribute your own pins, and connect with explorers.
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Top Abandoned Places in British Columbia
The Shuttered Outpost
Straddling the dusty fringes of Highway 97 in Vernon, British Columbia's sun-drenched Okanagan corridor, this weathered sentinel; a modest gray stucco outpost with a pitched roof and sagging portico; hunkers like a forgotten pit stop from the valley's trucking heyday. Likely a roadside shop or service shack born in the postwar boom, it once buzzed with the clatter of travelers fueling up, its double doors swinging to hawk sundries or quick fixes under the watchful gaze of Swan Lake's distant shimmer. But as big-box sprawl eclipsed the mom-and-pops and traffic thundered on, it shuttered its fate with a stark "CLOSED" placard, surrendering to the creep of thistles and cheatgrass that now choke its threshold, while a lone blue dumpster squats like a mocking tombstone beside rusted utility poles and the skeletal hulks of shipping containers. Urban explorers threading BC's vein of forgotten byways will unearth a compact elegy to transience here: nudge past the splintered awning to frame the graffiti-flecked facade against the hulking forms of nearby warehouses, or circle the perimeter where wild sunflowers claw through cracked concrete, the air humming with the phantom diesel growl of semis on the overpass. A subtle canvas for your shutter to capture the quiet insurgency of weeds reclaiming what commerce cast aside, all under skies that stretch eternally blue and indifferent.
Highglen Montessori
Abandoned in 2012 following a fire, demolished in 2014
Quesnel Recreation Centre
Demolished in the late 2010s