Scenic & Romantic
Fraser Views from the Port Haney Wharf
A restored 1935 wharf building over the Fraser with a river lookout, the Golden Ears behind you and freight trains going past your shoulder.
Port Haney
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A restored 1935 wharf building over the Fraser with a river lookout, the Golden Ears behind you and freight trains going past your shoulder.
Port Haney
More infoPort Haney is where Maple Ridge started, and the wharf is the piece worth standing on. The false fronted 1935 building was restored and moved back out onto the wharf in 1992, and there is now a lookout platform over the riverbank: brown water moving fast, log booms, the occasional tug, and the Golden Ears filling the whole northern sky at your back. The rail line runs right there, which is either an intrusion or the entire point depending on your mood. From here a paved heritage walk climbs past eleven historic sites to Haney House and the museum, with benches in the old orchard, if the view leaves you wanting more.
Drive down River Road below the Haney Bypass and park near the wharf, or walk down from downtown Maple Ridge in about ten minutes, all of it downhill on the way there. The wharf itself is a restored 1935 false fronted building with a river landing and a lookout platform over the bank, and the hour before sunset is when the Fraser goes metallic and the Golden Ears turn pink behind you. Stay twenty minutes for the view, or pick up the paved Fraser River Heritage Walk from the same spot: eleven historic sites, an underpass beneath the bypass, and benches in the Haney House orchard at the top. Open year round, free, and the West Coast Express platform is right there.
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