Cypress Provincial Park

Incredible hiking and road biking! Climbing the access road on a road bike can be challenging, but it is very rewarding with incredible views and sights, and clean mountain air. Hiking has varying difficulty with amazing views along the Baden Powell trail and the Howe Sound Crest trail. Nordic Skiing can be challenging because of the limited flat terrain, but it is very good for climbing and descending. There are many snowshoe trails to explore, again with varying difficulty. (Building snowforts is always fun!) The downhill skiing is also good fun, but almost all of the black diamond slopes are closed at night. I've never had a problem with any of the staff. They work hard and they are always very helpful. I will say, they do try their best at managing parking, but it gets very crowded here during the winter, so good luck finding parking! 😄
8 years ago (30-03-2018)

Great place to visit. During Summer and Fall you can visit the park for easy to challenges hikes. All are dog friendly (on leash) and views are spectacular. Trails are well marked and maps are available on the trail head and junctions (on the busy trails). Winter is amazing as well, snowshoeing trails are great and Hollyburn trail is free and dog friendly. For snowboarders and skiers there is some fun as well, best local mountain (in my opinion) - let's keep Whistler out of the equation.
8 years ago (08-03-2018)

My favourite local mountain for snowshoeing and snowboarding. The Dog Mountain snowshoe trail has a great view of the city and is relatively short, about an hour to the top and back, with rolling hills, no crazy ascend. It is accessible from the nordic downhill parking, on the left and is marked as Dog Mountain. The trail accessible from the cross country area (about 30 feet left of the tubing park) is not marked with the name of the trail but does have 3 hills to climb but the view is worth it and it runs alongside the cross country path. The trip up takes about 2-2.5 hrs and the trip down is about 1-1.5hr long.
8 years ago (03-03-2018)

Best local hill IMHO... I was visiting from Ontario staying in Port Moody and didn't want to make the 2hr drive to whistler. 2 hills... Lots of varied terrain... Staff at pro shop and restaurant were great.... Even lunch was really good 👍 I spoke with lots of locals who love this place. Definitely hope to go back and enjoy. The views were of course stunning If you can you really really should
9 years ago (14-12-2017)

Lots of fun during winter! Snowshoeing is a great exercise. You can also do Cross country, ski and snowboard. Great location if you don't want to pay a lift ticket (like Grouse Mountain). It's easily accessible by car, even during winter time.
8 years ago (18-02-2018)