Fraser Valley
Our New Basecamp!
PITT LAKE as seen from the summit of Golden Ears à
The north side of the Fraser River is blessed with a lot of local hiking options. Year round we go for walks along the dykes at the outlet of Pitt Lake. We have also rented a canoe and paddled over to Widgeon Slough. A trail leads from here to a series of cascades and pools, which are swimable in the summer. The truly hardy can push on to Widgeon Lake a 11.7m 2673ft trudge over a very rough and tumble trail.
Golden Ears Provincial Park - The trail to the ears themselves is a blistering 15 mile round trip with over 5000ft of elevation gain. We usually turn around at the lovely waterfall at 1.5 miles. This same waterfall can be reached by a paved trail on the opposite side of the river. The other major hiking trail leads up Alouette Mountain but we only hiked this part way, to erroneously named Lake Beautiful, which was still 9.6 miles. There are a few other smaller walking trails, one is the Viking Creek Viewpoint trail, which doesn’t actually lead to great views.
The North Fraser Valley features a number of lovely waterfalls, the one pictured above is from the outlet of Rolley Lake, a nice loop trail joins this to another waterfall near Florence Lake Road. Cliff Falls is in Kanaka Creek Regional Park, and further down the valley in Mission is Cascade Falls Regional Park. Also in Mission is the Hayward Lake Reservoir, it is encircled by a well-maintained 10-mile trail and features Steelhead Falls.
The South Fraser has it's own lovely cascade, (Bridal Veil Falls) as well as some big trees (
