Cable car · North Vancouver, Canada
Red Skyride
Red Skyride is a cable car near North Vancouver, Canada. It climbs 798 m over 1.38 km, from 294 m to 1,092 m above sea level. Between its 2 pylons, the cable runs up to about 62 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
74/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Red Skyride is scarier than 74% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 3 of 37 in Canada.
- Highest above the ground: about 62 m, as high as a 21-storey building, 1.06 km after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 703 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 33°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 508 m of the 1.38 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Red Skyride is near North Vancouver, Canada, at 294 m above sea level (49.37241° N, 123.09896° W). From there it runs 1.38 km up to the top station at 1,092 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Opened
- 1974
- Capacity
- 1,000 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 100 people
- Ride time
- about 4 min
Nearby lines
- Blue Grouse Gondola gondola · 0.0 km away · rises 798 m
- Sea to Sky Gondola gondola · 33.2 km away · rises 850 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.