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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Adventure & Outdoors
Walk Beaver Lake and the Tall Trees
Stanley Park's quiet interior, a water-lily lake, the actual Lover's Walk, and giant cedars the seawall crowd never finds.
Adventure & Outdoors
Stanley Park's quiet interior, a water-lily lake, the actual Lover's Walk, and giant cedars the seawall crowd never finds.
Everyone already knows about the Stanley Park seawall, which is exactly why the real date is the one in the trees behind it. Step a few minutes off the water and the park's interior turns hushed and green, a network of soft forest trails that winds around Beaver Lake, a tiny pond so smothered in water lilies from June onward it looks like someone commissioned a painting. The Beaver Lake loop is short and flat, but weave in the Lake Trail, Rawlings Trail, and the Lover's Walk (yes, it is genuinely named that, yes, you should absolutely mention it) and you'll wander past old logged stumps and some of the park's last giant cedars and Douglas firs. Free, shaded, and quiet. Plan on an hour to ninety minutes, longer if the herons keep stopping you.
