Hike & Bike

• ALDERGROVE LAKE PARK
  Travel west on Hwy. 1, turn off at 264 Street Exit Hwy. 13 and head south. Left on 8th Avenue (at Park directional signs), cross Jackman Road, then shortly right info the park. Heading east, trail is to left of bridge.  Proceed upstream through open forest.
  
  Open forest with varied wild flowers and a view to the International Boundary. Round trip 4 km - allow 1.5 hours walking/hiking. Park trail good for most of the year. Ideal for horseback riding.
  
  
• BC MOUNTAIN BIKE DIRECTORY
  Comprehensive directory website with a database of local mountain bike trails.
  
  
• CAMPBELL LAKE
  Campbell Lake: Round trip 9 km. Elevation Gain: 600 m. High point: 610 m. Time: 5 hours.
  
  The trail starts at the foot of Balsam Ave. on Hwy. 9 Two short blocks from the Village of Harrison Hot springs. Look for the sign on your left as you drive into town. This trail is very well marked.
  
  
  
• CENTENNIAL PARK - MILL LAKE
  Mill Lake Road & Emerson
  
  Nature trails, fitness track, picnic area, outdoor swimming pool, playground equipment, trout fishing, wildfowl refuge. Open to small rowboats and canoes. Adjacent to two major shopping centres and a short walk to Ravine Park. A beautiful boardwalk winds around to the Kariton Gallery, MSA Museum and Trethewey House. Majestic view of Mt. Baker.
  
  
  
• CULTUS LAKE PROVINCIAL PARK
  Follow Hwy 1 east towards Chilliwack, take Sardis Exit & right towards Sardis down Vedder Road. Follow signs.
  
  Cultus is a Chinook word meaning "worthless," but the park area is now one of southern BC's most popular. Surrounded by mountains, the scenery is inspiring, swimming excellent, waterskiing, wind surfing and hiking are exhilarating. Numerous hiking trails. Ideal for horseback riding.
  
  
  
• GOLDEN EARS PROVINCIAL PARK
  North on Abbotsford-Mission Hwy 11, cross Mission Bridge, then head west on Hwy 7 for approx. 29 km and follow signs to the park.
  
  Beautiful Alouette Lake, setting for extensive recreational activities, picnic area. Stately forest with numerous hiking trails maintained with bark mulch. Great view of waterfalls, mountains etc. Ideal for horseback riding.
  
  
  
• HATZIC LAKE
  Take Hwy. 7 cast of Mission to Sylvester Road (6.6 km). Right on Sylvester, cross CPR tracks and left on McKamie Road to first fork. Continue to dyke, drive 2.6 km from main highway to gate which bars further vehicle traffic. Park vehicle and walk using narrow dirt road atop the Dyke.
  
  Enjoyable view towards Golden Ears and Mount Robic Reid.  Round trip 12 km - allow 3.5 hours walking/hiking. Dyke and river trail. Good all year.  Ideal for horseback riding.
  
  
  
• HAYWARD RESERVOIR TRAIL
  Old growth and second growth forest, picnic benches and tables along the route with views of the lake along the trail.
  
  The trail is accessible from Hayward Street, which is off of Highway #7 in Silverdale (west of Mission). The northern and southern side of the Hayward Dam or by Dewdney Trunk Road at Stave Dam is where the trails commence.
  
  
• HEMLOCK VALLEY RESORT
  Set in a natural bowl of hills rising over 1300m. Reforested and reseeded with bright alpine flowers, the valley offers beautiful scenery with panoramic view of Mt. Baker to the south, and Mt. Garibaldi to the north. Ideal for horseback riding or hiking of nature trails to alpine meadows, canoeing on lake or river, catching cutthroat in nearby lakes or steel head in Cheha River.
  
  
  
• HOOVER LAKE
  A moderate to strenuous hike along a logging road to an easy walk along the lake. You may hike the 7.5 km return trip to the lake, or you can go further to the viewpoint at the top (it's all uphill). The average grade is 10% with an elevation gain of 230 meters to the lake.
   
  
• MATSQUI TRAIL (DYKE)
  North on Abbotsford-Mission Highway #11, left on Harris Road & right Gladwin Road. After a few hundred meters park at the end of the river dyke. Also accessible by Riverside Street through Matsqui Village.
  
  A picturesque trail along the Fraser River with beautiful view of Mats Island, Westminster Abbey and Coastal Mountains. It's not a difficult trail since the dyke is virtually flat. Round trip 12.8 km. Good all year. Ideal horseback riding.
  
  
• ROLLEY LAKE
  West on Hwy 7 to Hayward; north on Hayward to/and east on Dewdney Trunk. Left on Bell Street and north to Rolley Lake.
  
  Short hike to a small waterfall, swimming, canoeing, fishing, picnic area. Ideal for horseback riding.
  
  
  
• U.B.C. MALCOLM KNAPP RESEARCH FOREST
  The forest is located in the foothills of the Coast Mountains, approximately 60 km east of Vancouver, British Columbia. The forest itself is 5,157 hectares in size, with an average width (from west to east) of 4 km and an average length (from south to north) of 13 km. The landbase contains just about every type of terrain found in the lower coastal region of BC. The Forest stretches north and east up the steep slopes of the Golden Ears Mountains to about 1000 m about sea level, west down to sea level at Pitt Lake, and south to the edge of the urban interface in Maple Ridge.