Adventure & Outdoors
A West Vancouver forest walk past 300-year-old cedars to two waterfalls that make you instinctively lower your voice without agreeing to.
Cypress Falls Park is proof you don't need to drive to the top of the mountain to feel genuinely small. Tucked above Caulfeild in West Van, this compact park hides two waterfalls and a stand of red cedar and Douglas-fir that have been minding their own business for over 300 years, some of the biggest trees on the North Shore outside Lighthouse Park. The trail climbs gently from the parking lot to a viewpoint over the lower falls, then continues to the more dramatic upper falls, which roar impressively after rain or spring melt. It's a moody, green, mossy place where you'll instinctively lower your voices without agreeing to. At roughly 3 km round trip with modest climbing, plenty of energy remains for coffee after. Free park, free parking. Watch for roots, mud and unfenced drops near the falls.
