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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Adventure & Outdoors
Boardwalk the Camosun Bog
An ancient peat bog inside Pacific Spirit Park with carnivorous sundews, interpretive signs, and a volunteer restoration story that beats most bios.
Adventure & Outdoors
An ancient peat bog inside Pacific Spirit Park with carnivorous sundews, interpretive signs, and a volunteer restoration story that beats most bios.
Camosun Bog is thousands of years old and takes about ten minutes to walk across, which is either a paradox or a miracle depending on your mood. The 300-metre boardwalk threads through sphagnum moss, Labrador tea and carnivorous sundews on the Dunbar edge of Pacific Spirit Park, and the interpretive signs will absolutely make at least one of you stop and re-read the bit about plants eating insects. A volunteer restoration group has spent decades coaxing this rare ecosystem back to health, which is a genuinely stirring story and an excellent conversation topic. The bog itself is a ten-minute wander, so weave in the surrounding Pacific Spirit forest trails to stretch the afternoon to a full hour. It's free, shaded, flat and the kind of quietly astonishing local thing that makes you wonder what else you've been walking past.
