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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Adventure & Outdoors
Chase the Lower Falls at Golden Ears
A flat forest walk along an emerald creek to a waterfall that roars in spring and turns swimmable by late summer.
Adventure & Outdoors
A flat forest walk along an emerald creek to a waterfall that roars in spring and turns swimmable by late summer.
Golden Ears Provincial Park is large and famous and extremely popular, and the Lower Falls walk is the version of it that requires almost nothing of your legs. From the Gold Creek lot you follow a wide, mostly flat path through old second-growth forest with an emerald creek running alongside you the entire way, until Lower Falls drops over a rock shelf in front of a proper viewing platform. It's about 5.5 km round trip. The park is legitimately busy on summer weekends, which means the Gold Creek lot fills early: come in the morning or roll in mid-afternoon when the crowds thin. In spring, the falls roar. By late summer they mellow into a swimmable pool below the shelf, which sounds wonderful until you remember the current and the slick rocks, which the signs will mention. The walk is free. The view arrives quickly.
