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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
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.
Adventure & Outdoors
260 hectares of Surrey forest, a free salmon hatchery, and a trail so easy the conversation is the main event.
Tynehead doesn't look like much on a map and turns out to be exactly the kind of place where a date can breathe. Two hundred and sixty hectares of meadow and second-growth forest wrap around the Serpentine River headwaters in Surrey, with flat trails that duck through cool trees, cross little bridges, and pass a working salmon hatchery you can stroll into for free. The Hatchery and Salmon Habitat Loop strings together into a relaxed couple of kilometres. The paved Perimeter Trail is there if you want more. Come in fall, between October and December, and the salmon run past the viewing platforms in a way that is genuinely astonishing no matter how many times you've been told it's astonishing. Quiet on weekdays, free always, and easy enough that the trail never competes with the actual point of the afternoon.
