Adventure & Outdoors
Walk the Salmon Trails at Tynehead
260 hectares of Surrey forest, a free salmon hatchery, and a trail so easy the conversation is the main event.
Tynehead Regional Park, Serpentine River headwaters, Guildford, Surrey
More infoAdventure & Outdoors
260 hectares of Surrey forest, a free salmon hatchery, and a trail so easy the conversation is the main event.
Tynehead Regional Park, Serpentine River headwaters, Guildford, Surrey
More infoTynehead looks unremarkable on a map and turns out to be exactly where a date can breathe. Flat trails duck through second-growth forest and cross little bridges past a working salmon hatchery you can stroll into for free. Come between October and December and the salmon run past the viewing platforms in a way that is genuinely astonishing however many times you have been warned it is. Quiet on weekdays.
Start from the Hatchery entrance lot at 16689 96 Avenue in the park's south end (washrooms, picnic tables and signs right there). Link the Hatchery and Salmon Habitat Loop trails for a relaxed, flat couple of kilometres of forest and riverbank with little bridges along the way. Don't miss the working salmon hatchery, which you can walk into for free, and the river viewing platforms, which become the main event during the October-to-December salmon run. Memorable touch: bring a thermos and post up at a platform to watch the river. Want more? Pick up the fully paved 4 km Perimeter Trail for a longer, smoother walk. Short on time? Just do the short Salmon Habitat Loop from the hatchery lot and back.
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