The town and area is known for having a large population of black bears, which have a tendency to enter the populated locations in search of food. Despite this, very few attacks have been reported, and the residents are in favour of learning and teaching behaviours, rather than killing or removing the bears.

The town has been the site of various movie and television filmings, and hosts the annual Whistler Film Festival each December. The Whistler Summit Canadian film industry conference is held in conjunction with the festival.

ART GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS

• The Whistler Village Art Gallery was founded in 1992, and showcases "distinctive Canadian and international contemporary art." Featuring emerging artists as well as established professionals, the gallery exhibits landscape, figurative, and abstract work, and sells paintings, glasswork, multimedia, and sculpture.

  With two separate locations in Whistler, the gallery sees most of the two million guests that visit the town each year. The artists they show include sculptor Georgia Gerber, painters Jimmy Wright and Ronald Russon, and glass artist Steven Maslach.

• Supplying the region with works by Canadian and international artists, the Plaza Galleries is the largest gallery in the town, and offers exhibits throughout the year as well as a large collection of art for purchase. Among the gallery's features artists are watercolourist Kal Gajoum, street artist Brian Porter, acrylic painter Jennifer Vranes, mixed media artist Nakisa Seika, and even Picasso.

• Fathom Stone Arts
• Black Tusk Gallery
• Royal BC Museum
• Whistler Museum and Archives Society
• Scotia Creek Gallery
• White Dog Whistler Galleries
• Audain Art Museum (opening fall 2015)
• Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre
• Art Junction

LOCAL ARTISTS

There are plenty of artistic people originally from, or currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia!

• Mark Richards combines photography and painting in his own brand of art, and has lived and worked in Whistler since 2006. His works are exhibited at self-titled gallery.

• Expressionist painter Laura Zerebeski is a BC native who has painted a number of colourful interpretations of Whistler, as well as other areas of the province and Canada.

• Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki is a landscape painter who has created many works of the mountain ranges in and around Whistler. Her work is exhibited and sold at the White Dog Gallery.

WHISTLER EVENTS AND SIGHTS

• The Whistler Film Festival takes place each December. It is a five-day event that features parties, screenings, awards shows, and the Celebrity Challenge ski race.

• Every summer, artistic businesses in Whistler get together to create the Art Walk, a two month-long self-guided tour that leads guests to pop up galleries and kicks off with a street activities and socials.

• Visit Whistler Blackcomb for a great ski and snowboard experience in winter, or mountain biking in the summer.

• Ride the Peak to Peak Gondola that connects the Roundhouse Lodge to the Rendezvous Restaurant, and spend three kilometres floating through the sky.

• Canoe or kayak down the River of Golden Dreams, which meanders between Alta Lake and Green Lake.

• Shannon Falls Provincial Park features the third-tallest waterfall in British Columbia. The area includes a campground and restaurant, and is nearby two other parks: Murrin and Stawamus Chief.

• For more exciting things to see and do, visit the Whistler Tourism website.

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