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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Adventure & Outdoors
Loop the Forest at Watershed Park
North Delta's 11-kilometre trail web through tall firs and cedars, best on hot days or grey ones, because the canopy handles both.
Adventure & Outdoors
North Delta's 11-kilometre trail web through tall firs and cedars, best on hot days or grey ones, because the canopy handles both.
Watershed Park is North Delta's pocket of proper old-feeling forest, an 11-kilometre web of trails through tall second-growth firs and cedars that makes you forget the highway it borders exists. The classic loop is a gently rolling 6 km of soft dirt path, almost entirely under canopy, which is what makes it the walk for both a July heat wave and a November grey spell: the trees do the climate work. A sunny open meadow near the middle gives you somewhere to sit and eat something. Shared with mountain bikers, so you'll hear the occasional friendly heads-up, and there are roots plus a few gentle climbs to keep things interesting without ever becoming a full hike. Bring bug spray in summer. Free, open dawn to dusk, and the woodsiest stroll you'll find this far south of the mountains.
