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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Adventure & Outdoors
Loop the Full Lake at Burnaby Lake
Ten flat kilometres of boardwalk and birding around a city lake where the ducks at Piper Spit have clearly been briefed.
Adventure & Outdoors
Ten flat kilometres of boardwalk and birding around a city lake where the ducks at Piper Spit have clearly been briefed.
Burnaby Lake is the rare big-feeling nature walk you can pull off in the middle of a city without a single calf-burning hill. The full loop is about 10 km of flat gravel and boardwalk through cottonwood forest and reedy marsh that functions as a free birding safari: herons stalking the shallows, turtles piled onto logs as if sunbathing competitively, and at Piper Spit a boardwalk so crowded with ducks and geese it seems professionally staged. It's the kind of walk where you actually talk, because nobody's gasping for air. Long stretches have zero shade, so bring water and a hat in summer. The south side runs close to the highway and the north side is the dreamy, quiet half. Free, open dawn to dusk, and easy to cut in half if your legs or your conversation run out.
