West Coast Street Art

On a recent trip to the West Coast of Canada and the USA Team Sea to Sky were impressed by some of the street art we saw in skateparks and along the nearby streets. The west coast may not have Banksy – but they do know how to make dead gray space beautiful.  

Street art, Tiger, statepark, Whistler,
Whistler Skatepark, British Columbia, Canada

Olympia, WA
Olympia, Washington, USA

Vancouver 1 
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 

Whistler Skate Park 3
Whistler Stakepark, British Columbia, Canada

Whitehorse, YK 2, Yukon, Klondike glod rush
Whitehorse, Yukon. This image depicts the men that risked it all in the Klondike Gold Rush.

Portland, OR
Portland, Oregon, USA

San Fran, Ca 
San Francisco, California, USA

Vancouver, Street art,
First Nation art in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Whistler Skate Park 1
Whistler Skatepark, British Columbia, Canada.

Flagstaff 
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. 

Burnside Skate Park, Portland
Burnside Skatepark, Portland, Oregon, USA. 

San Fransico, Ca
San Francisco, California, USA.

Whistler, Stakepark, Street Art
Whistler Stakepark, British Columbia, Canada. 

Vancouver 3

Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada.

Linda's Tavern, Capital hill, Seattle 
Linda’s Tavern, Seattle, Washington. Apparently, its the last place Kirk Cobain was seen alive.

Vancouver 2
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  

 

 

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