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    Pinecone Burke Provincial Park - Forgotten Front End Loader in the Woods

    Pinecone Burke Provincial Park

    4.0(2 reviews)
    42.8 km

    Pinecone Burke Provincial Park is a wonderful place to spend some time exploring. The park is…read morenamed after Burke Mountain and Pinecone Lake. Burke Mountain was once the location of a Ski Resort and if you poke around enough you can still find remnants of the old operation up there. Old Cabins to some old machinery are tucked away along the trail. It makes for a good treasure hunt. There are three main access points for this park and two minor access point for this park. The three main access points are as follows: by Car at the end of Harper Road at the Gun Club and Quarry Road just after Minnekhada Regional Park and through and by kayak or Canoe through Widgeon Valley National Wildlife Area starting at Grant Narrows. The two minor access points are taking a water taxi to the far end of pit lake and accessing old logging roads on that side via bike or boot and on Mamquam FSR from Squamish (Mamquam FSR will get you to Pinecone lake). The portion of the trail near the Gun Club sounds like you are walking through WW3 and is a bit unnerving really but once you get around the corner and loose the sound the park comes to life with amazing forests and lakes to explore. The park is open year round but the higher elevations will require skis or snowshoes to access and care should be taken to not get into avalanche danger wile playing in the snow. Always check avalanche.ca before heading up into the back country in the winter!

    Lovely trails all around and nice view. Clean area and beautiful tree, decent walk and a bit of a…read moredecent hike. Nothing too difficult but definitely not a flat ground so some trails aren't suitable for very young kids and elders. A couple lakes around the area too. Munro Lake, Dennett Lake and the Village Lake Trail. A parking lot and some street parking too. Not hard to find too

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    Pinecone Burke Provincial Park - Hourglass Lake

    Hourglass Lake

    Pinecone Burke Provincial Park - Lilly pad Lake

    Lilly pad Lake

    Pinecone Burke Provincial Park - Widgeon Falls

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    Brother's Creek Loop - June 1, 2025.

    Brother's Creek Loop

    4.5(4 reviews)
    69.0 km

    After over four LONG years, I finally finished school, so now I can finally have a life and do the…read morethings I enjoy doing, such as hiking. For my first hike post graduation, I did the Brother's Creek Loop with a couple of friends last weekend. I had never done this trail before, and at 7km and 4 hours (per https://www.vancouvertrails.com), it was just what I looking for -- not too easy, but not too hard. Brother's Creek Loop might be one of my new favourite intermediate hikes -- the trail offered a good mix of flat and easy and some elevation (I definitely worked up a sweat!), without being absurdly difficult -- perfect for an intermediate hiker building up their endurance and skill. (Note -- parts of the trail were smooth, while some areas had rocks and roots to walk over, as well as short wooden bridges, so I wouldn't recommend it for people with mobility issues or bad knees.) The surroundings were beautiful -- a canopy of trees to protect from the sun, green, and a couple of waterfalls. We drove to the trailhead (parking, which is along a residential street is quite limited, but we managed to find a spot), Brother's Creek is transit accessible (take the #254 bus in West Vancouver to Eyremount Drive and Crestline Road and walk about ten minutes), so now I can add this hike to my short list of transit accessible hikes. (I don't drive, so not being able to access metro Vancouver's many hiking trails really limits my ability to go hiking.) It took us about 3.5 hours to complete the hike, and that included us walking slowly (I am a slow hiker), taking photos, stopping for a quick lunch, and getting slightly lost (the instructions on www.vancouvertrails.com were quite good, up to a point). I highly recommend this trail for people who want more than a walk but aren't expert hikers, and it's nice that non-drivers can access the trail as well. I'm looking forward to hiking Brother's Creek Loop again! [Yelp collections: Hiking]

    It was drizzling a little and with no sign of any breaks in the clouds as we headed up the trail…read more We seemed to have the park to ourselves for quite some time allowing us to enjoy the peacefulness that this perfect loop trail has to offer. Rich green ferns line the rocky trail through wooded areas and over old log foot bridges, muddy creeks and magnificent rushing cascades. Yes, this is one of those enchanted places that is best kept a local secret, and getting there is challenging enough to keep it that way. The loop trail is easy to moderate and I would recommend that proper hiking boots be warn. Some of the bridges are in need of repair but mostly it's an easy trail, with moderate elevation.

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    Brother's Creek Loop - June 1, 2025.

    June 1, 2025.

    Brother's Creek Loop - June 1, 2025.

    June 1, 2025.

    Brother's Creek Loop

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    Kennedy Falls - June 14, 2025.

    Kennedy Falls

    5.0(1 review)
    61.0 km

    The first and only time I have hiked to Kennedy Falls was in the summer of 2016, nine years ago…read more I've been wanting to go again, but unfortunately I never had the opportunity until yesterday (June 14, 2025). As nearly a decade has gone by, I didn't remember much about the hike except that it was fairly challenging because the terrain was quite rugged and technical with rocks and roots, there were logs to climb over, and I had to scramble up some short, but steep inclines. None of that has changed, but now along a short section of the trail (probably the part that I had to scramble up nine years ago), there is a chain to assist with climbing up and down. I had quite a bit of difficulty descending this portion of the trail (it was quite scary!), but it was fairly easy hiking back up. Until quite recently, I had no idea that Kennedy Falls was accessible by transit, and I organized a hike yesterday with my transit accessible hiking group. The #210 bus stops at Mountain Highway and Coleman Street, only about a ten minute walk from the entrance to the trails on Mount Fromme, although the walk up from the bus stop is quite steep, and I was huffing and puffing. (The walk from the bus stop was actually the steepest incline encountered on our entire hike. The hike, while difficult due to terrain, had minimal elevation.) The hike to Kennedy Falls, round trip, is 10km and about five hours. Hiking at a slow, relaxed pace, taking breaks (including 20 minutes at the falls and 10 minutes at the big Cedar tree, as well as other shorter breaks), the hike took six hours. To get to Kennedy Falls, you first hike along the Cedar Tree Trail. The first portion is quite easy and flat, then you eventually encounter logs, rocks, and the chain. After about 1.5 hours, you come to the big Cedar -- a HUGE tree that is estimated to be about 600 years old. Once leaving the Cedar, it takes about an hour to get to the falls, so a total of 2.5 hours from the beginning to the falls, one way. (The timing was also the same on the way back.) It was a great hike, and now that I know that it is transit accessible, I will be sure to go more often. As it can be quite wet and muddy, with numerous streams to cross, it is best to go during the summer when it's dry, so I likely won't be going in the spring, only summer and early fall. (Also due to the length of the hike, I prefer to go when the sun sets later.) Other things to note: the outhouses located at the start of the trail are still gendered (which makes no sense!), and the sign telling you not to throw pianos and other objects into the toilet is still there. There is also a water refill station at the entrance. Not that it matters to me, as I take transit, but parking there is difficult. A few of our group members drove, and they had trouble finding parking. Parking is free, but the parking lot is quite small, and Mount Fromme is very popular with mountain bikers (there are numerous mountain biking trails), so the parking lot was full at 10am. They were able to find parking on nearby side streets, but then had to walk 20 minutes up the steep hill (the bus stop was closer than where they parked). One person did manage to get a parking spot in the parking lot (after waiting 30 minutes), but it was only after we completed our hike that we noticed there was a three hour limit (thankfully he did not get a ticket). While transit is a pain in the ass (our bus was over ten minutes late!), it has its advantages. [Yelp collections: Hiking]

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    Kennedy Falls - June 14, 2025.

    June 14, 2025.

    Kennedy Falls - June 14, 2025.

    June 14, 2025.

    Kennedy Falls - June 14, 2025.

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    June 14, 2025.

    Northern State Recreation Area - Rec pavilions, and open field.

    Northern State Recreation Area

    4.3(22 reviews)
    58.6 km

    Super cool! Writing this as a manual wheelchair user who can limp a few steps with assistance. The…read moremain plaza is incredibly well-maintained and paved. The bathroom was accessible and clean. From there, the trail itself is mostly gravel with some uphill portions. Getting up to the main set of buildings was a workout for me, propelling, and another person pushing me. There are two paths, one gravel and the other semi-paved with concrete ridges. I would not recommend getting up there without help in a wheelchair, but it was certainly possible, and worth it in my opinion. The buildings are super cool. The area is surrounded by nature and mountains. We turned back after getting tired, but will absolutely come back better prepared to see some more stuff.

    I went here with a group of people from a social group I am in and really enjoyed it a lot! It's…read morethe grounds where the defunct Nortgern State Hospital was. We went by soke run down buildings, one that was more of a food preparation area and they once grew fruit trees there for the facility. The fruit trees can still be seen and at the time we were here were bearing fruit! We also went to some old barns where livestock was once kept for the hospital. Those buildings were very impressive and a bit creepy. To add to that someone in our group went over some of the experiments that went on here as well as possible mishaps that they pulled up online. That definitely added to the creepy vibe. But still it was a very pleasant stroll as we also was in a nice field and encountered a babbling brook. It was a great outing with great company! I'd love to explore the grounds even more as I have a feeling some of the buildings I didn't get to see.

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    Northern State Recreation Area - Inside one of the barns.

    Inside one of the barns.

    Northern State Recreation Area
    Northern State Recreation Area - View from the end of the semi-paved uphill path with asylum buildings, mountains, and wildflowers

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    View from the end of the semi-paved uphill path with asylum buildings, mountains, and wildflowers

    Matsqui Trail Regional Park - hiking - Updated July 2026

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