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Scenic & Romantic
Lap the Loop at Lafarge Lake
A flat mirror-still lake loop that grows 700,000 lights every November and calls itself Lights at Lafarge.
Scenic & Romantic
A flat mirror-still lake loop that grows 700,000 lights every November and calls itself Lights at Lafarge.
Lafarge Lake is Coquitlam's accidental romance set-piece, though whoever laid out a flat 1.2km gravel loop around a lake that goes full mirror at dusk was probably not doing it by accident. Eagle Ridge frames the far shore, there are benches at the intervals you actually need them, and the whole loop takes about half an hour at a pace that encourages talking. It costs nothing. From late November to Family Day it becomes Lights at Lafarge: roughly 700,000 lights strung around the entire loop, free every night, and one of the easiest 'we should do this again' dates in the Tri-Cities. Do it in both seasons and you'll have two completely different impressions of the same 1.2km. That's good value for a gravel path and a lake.
