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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Adventure & Outdoors
Wander the River Trails on Deas Island
A leafy Fraser River island hiding Victorian heritage buildings, bald eagles and a profound lack of other people, right off Highway 99.
Adventure & Outdoors
A leafy Fraser River island hiding Victorian heritage buildings, bald eagles and a profound lack of other people, right off Highway 99.
Deas Island is what people mean when they say you have to know where to go: a low, leafy island in the Fraser River's south arm, reached from what sounds like a very boring spot right off Highway 99, and then immediately not boring at all. The trails are flat and braided. Tinmaker's Walk, Slough View and the Tidal Pond Trail link a couple of relaxed kilometres through cottonwood forest and reedy slough, with the river always in view and bald eagles overhead who are conspicuously unbothered by their own magnificence. The genuinely unexpected bit is the cluster of restored Victorian heritage buildings mid-walk, including the Burrvilla, which have no business being this charming inside a regional park. Free and open dawn to dusk, with picnic tables for the after-walk sit. Note for 2026: the western tip is fenced for tunnel-replacement work, but the rest of the island is fully open.
