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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Adventure & Outdoors
Climb to Munro Lake on Burke Mountain
A brutally steep start on Burke Mountain that earns you a quiet backcountry lake almost nobody else has picnicked at.
Adventure & Outdoors
A brutally steep start on Burke Mountain that earns you a quiet backcountry lake almost nobody else has picnicked at.
The Munro Lake trail does not ease you in. The first section is brutally steep, gaining a few hundred metres with zero apology, which is useful because it immediately establishes that you are both the kind of people who go on dates like this. Once you have earned the ridge, the trail softens into forest and eventually delivers you to a quiet, reflective backcountry lake that most hikers have never seen. Pack a full lunch. This is a payoff-picnic situation. Plan for roughly 9 to 10 km round-trip and four and a half hours of real, genuine effort in Pinecone Burke Provincial Park, Coquitlam. Good boots required. Muddy patches and summer bugs are priced in. Start early, carry the full-day kit, and book this one for May through October. It is free, it is wild, and the high-five at the top will absolutely be sincere.
