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, above Caulfeild, West Vancouver
More infoCypress Falls Park proves you don't need the mountaintop to feel small. Tucked above Caulfeild in West Van, it hides two waterfalls and a stand of red cedar and Douglas-fir growing for over 300 years, among the biggest trees on the North Shore outside Lighthouse Park. The trail climbs gently to the lower falls, then the more dramatic upper falls. Roughly 3 km round trip, free park, free parking.
Start from the small Cypress Falls Park lot at the top of Woodgreen Place, off Woodgreen Drive above the Upper Levels Highway in Caulfeild. The trail climbs gently from the lot; reach the lower-falls viewpoint first, then continue another stretch to the bigger, louder upper falls, roughly 3 km round trip with modest gain, so about an hour at a relaxed pace. Don't miss the side glances up at the 300-year-old red cedar and Douglas-fir giants; this is some of the oldest forest on the North Shore. The falls are most thunderous after rain or during spring melt, which also makes this a great rainy-day pick under the canopy. Tight on time? Turn around at the lower falls for a quick 15-minute round trip. Caution: roots, mud and unfenced drops near the falls, keep back from the edges, especially when wet.
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