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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Adventure & Outdoors
Cliff-Edge Lunch at St. Mark's Summit
An 11-km round trip on the Howe Sound Crest Trail delivering clifftop lunch and ferries crawling below like bath toys.
Adventure & Outdoors
An 11-km round trip on the Howe Sound Crest Trail delivering clifftop lunch and ferries crawling below like bath toys.
St. Mark's Summit is the date where you earn your lunch dramatically and in front of a very good backdrop. From the Howe Sound Crest Trailhead at Cypress, the route rolls through forest, going up and then down and then up again with the casual cruelty of all good trails, before arriving at a string of rocky bluffs perched above Howe Sound with Bowen and Gambier islands spread out below, the Sunshine Coast behind them, and tiny ferries inching across the water. It's roughly 11 km round trip with about 460 m of gain over 4 to 4.5 hours, a real moderate effort, which makes the lunch-on-a-cliff moment feel genuinely earned rather than merely pretty. Find your own ledge, mind the drop, and let the view carry the conversation. Free parking in summer. Snow rules it out most of the year, so July to October only.
