The Boardwalk Loop at Langford Lake, Langford Lake, off Goldstream Avenue, Victoria BC

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The Boardwalk Loop at Langford Lake

An easy lakeside walk on the Ed Nixon Trail, with a floating boardwalk out over Langford Lake and benches for the view.

Langford Lake, off Goldstream Avenue

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The Ed Nixon Trail wraps Langford Lake in an easy, mostly flat loop that any pair can walk without training for it. The highlight is the floating boardwalk that carries you out over the water, past a fishing platform, small beaches, and enough benches to stop and take it in. It is forest and lake and sky the whole way, about two and a half kilometres if you keep it short, and the trailhead sits straight down Goldstream Avenue from downtown Langford. That closeness is the trick: it turns a night of bowling into a night that also had a proper walk by the water.

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Duration
About an hour
Best time
Daytime
Per person
Free
setting
Outdoor
neighbourhood
Langford Lake, off Goldstream Avenue

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