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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Adventure & Outdoors
Chase Norvan Falls at Lynn Headwaters
A 14-km forest walk that asks barely anything of your legs until a 30-metre waterfall thanks you for showing up.
Adventure & Outdoors
A 14-km forest walk that asks barely anything of your legs until a 30-metre waterfall thanks you for showing up.
Norvan Falls is the North Shore's version of the big romantic payoff: a 30-metre cascade you reach via 14 km of almost entirely flat forest path along the Lynn River, close enough at the little wooden bridge to feel the actual spray on your face. The mostly-flat approach through mossy second-growth forest is the part where you actually talk to each other, because the terrain is not remotely demanding and does not require anyone to gasp. There are even riverside boulders built into the route as natural snack-and-sit stops, which the 5,500-plus AllTrails reviewers giving it 4.6 stars clearly appreciated. Count on four hours moving, pack lunch, layers and water, and take the boulders seriously as mandatory snack breaks, not optional ones. No scrambling. No ropes. No terror. Just a forest, a river, and a waterfall that earns the dinner.
