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The English language may have more words than any other, but it’s still not easy doing justice to a description of Sea to Sky Country’s beauty. As the name suggests, Sea to Sky Country takes you from ocean to mountain. But it doesn’t convey the natural drama. Towering rock faces that plunge to the sea. Rivers cascading in bubbly plumes off a sheer cliff. And intense colours that mesmerize even the most jaded traveller. Glittering blue Howe Sound. Brilliant white glacier ice. Jagged black peaks against an azure sky. Alpine meadows freckled with red, yellow and purple wildflowers. Tranquil turquoise lakes. Forests of deep emerald. Each can induce a kind of otherworldly serenity, a blissful calm in the presence of nature’s power and glory. This is what Sea to Sky Country can do for your soul and it’s just a half an hour from downtown Vancouver along Hwy. 99, better known as the Sea to Sky Highway. Starting in picturesque Horseshoe Bay, site of a B.C. Ferries terminal, the road winds through mountain communities that started as logging, mining, ranching and farming outposts. Today, they have also become welcoming havens for lovers of every manner of outdoor recreation on land, and in water and air. This country is also rich in archaeological and historical lore. Salish First Nations have lived here for thousands of years, and prospectors streamed north from Lillooet for the Fraser River gold rush back in the 1850s. Articles:
Alice Lake & Garibaldi Park Just north of Squamish is Alice Lake Provincial Park with some stunning and very convenient campsites, as well as a wide range of outdoor activities Eagle Rafting One of the best ways to see the gathering of thousands of bald eagles in the Squamish Estuary and on the Harrison River every November to January is from the water, on a raft Golf in Sea to Sky Country (Whistler) Sea to Sky Country has become as popular with golfers as toques and skiiers. Whistler and Squamish have developed into a top golf destinations. Hot Springs Slipping into hot springs is a joy in any season, and for any reason. As if nature had not blessed British Columbia enough with forests, mountains, lakes, streams and ocean, she also liberally dispensed hot springs across the landscape Lillooet The Duffey Lake Road that leads from Pemberton to Lillooet offers spectacular views of lakes and glaciers over its 104-km. (62-mile) length Pemberton Valley The whole region is threaded with rivers coursing through steep walled alpine valleys and dotted with glacier-fed lakes, forests, hot springs, parks and campsites. Porteau Cove Porteau Cove Provincial Park is a popular picnic spot as well as a mecca for scuba divers. Sunken ships in shallow water make for interesting and accessible dives. Road Trip - Sea to Sky - Winter Whether you are trekking the mountainside in snowshoes, barreling alongside fields in a snowmobile, ice-climbing a frozen waterfall, kayaking along coastal harbours, or conquering a mountain on skis or a snowboard, the possibilities are boundless. Rock Hounding There are more than 600 varieties of rock to be found on the banks of the Fraser River, many of them semi-precious. The stretch between Bridal Falls and the Fraser Canyon in Mighty Fraser Country is especially good for rock hounding. Snowmobiling Go where even skiers have never been on secret snow roads and across frozen lakes that wind through the mountains ringing the Whistler Valley and north to Pemberton and Lillooet. Squamish, Britannia Beach, Furry Creek It’s not at all surprising that Squamish, at the head of Howe Sound just 45 km. (27 miles) north of Horseshoe Bay, is one of Canada’s top 10 recreational destinations. Whistler Nestled in the spectacular Coast Mountains of British Columbia, just 120 kilometres (75 mi.) north of Vancouver and 56 kilometres (35 mi.) north of Squamish lies Whistler, a charming alpine village and the home of Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains.
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