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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Adventure & Outdoors
Lose Yourselves in Green Timbers Forest
Six hundred acres of surprisingly wild Surrey forest with 10 km of flat named trails and a stocked lake in the middle.
Adventure & Outdoors
Six hundred acres of surprisingly wild Surrey forest with 10 km of flat named trails and a stocked lake in the middle.
Green Timbers is the forest that shouldn't exist where it does, tucked into central Surrey with a calm confidence that the city around it is somebody else's problem. Over 10 km of soft, flat trails with names straight out of a plant field guide (Huckleberry, Cedar, Salal, Douglas Fir) wind through tall reforested woods and around a small, stocked fishing lake that's exactly the right size for a slow lap and an unhurried sit. It's free, well-signed and so quiet on weekdays that the city a hundred metres away becomes genuinely theoretical. The trails are gentle enough to keep your eyes on each other rather than the ground, which is technically the whole point. Good for a rainy shoulder-season afternoon when the mountains are socked in. Stop by the Surrey Nature Centre if it's open. Bring coffee for the lake bench.
