Comments on: Metro Vancouver Parks Series: Lighthouse Park

By: Gus Digital » May 2008 Long Weekend in Review

Gus Digital » May 2008 Long Weekend in Review — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:41:44 +0000

[...] roads and along the Marine Drive on our way back into Vancouver. We passed by Light House Park (who Rebecca and Raul wrote about) and decided to take a look. I was amazed at the amount of people that were [...]

By: Action-packed weekend but no energy to recap it :-( « Random Thoughts of a Student of the Environment

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:03:32 +0000

[...] of the season * EPIC ‘08 again on Sun with the FrogSquad * Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver (read the blog entry on Miss604.com) and a drive around the area, dinner and [...]

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:26:36 +0000

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Lighthouse Park is our favorite hike and very close to home. You really need to get out of the parking lot. The best views of the Point Atkinson Light are from East Beach. West beach is also good for pictures of the lighthouse. Go in the afternoon when the sun is to the west and illuminating the tower. Morning sun is on the tower from East Beach.

The most interesting place in Lighthouse Park is Star Boat Cove off the Valley Trail. Most of Lighthouse Park has rocky outcrops at the water line. There is actually a beach at Star Boat Cove that is tens of meters wide and about 10 meters deep at high tide. There is a portion of an old boiler at the waterline. I suspect it is from the wood fueled boiler originally used to for the steam-powered foghorn.

The places to visit in lighthouse park in order of ease of getting there are the Lighthouse viewpoint via Beacon Lane Trail, East Beach via Valley Trail, West Beach via Seven Sisters Trail, Starboat Cove via Arbutus Trail, Shore Pine Point via Shore Pine Trail, Juniper Point via Juniper Loop and Eagle Point via Valley of the Giants Trail or via Arbutus Trail.

I was at Eagle Point last weekend (12-Apr-08) and there were some sort of Fawn or Trout Lily in bloom. Very nice.

By: Tawcan

Tawcan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:23:35 +0000

There are a few rock climbing routes in Lighthouse Park too (by Jupiter’s Point). It’s a very good destination for mid afternoon or after work climbing.

http://tawcan.blogspot.com/2007/05/fun-packed-week.html

By: fotoeins

fotoeins — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:12:45 +0000

Thanks for pointing to Lighthouse Park, a place I haven’t been in decades. In the rush to Horseshoe Bay or up the Sea-to-Sky, it’s easy to forget to make this wae but oh so beautiful detour.

By: Tyler Ingram

Tyler Ingram — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:30:46 +0000

I’ve been here. The girlfriend took me there in January (or feb) but we took a side trail into the park (the one less traveled). It does offer a great view of the west end as well as the UBC part of Vancouver.

Lighthouses are pretty popular among some people. We just don’t have enough of them. But I tend to like the various styles of them anyway.