Crippen Regional Park - Snug Cove Site — Attraction in Bowen Island Municipality

Beautiful regional park. Visited during labour day (September). So much variety of views and terrain in the park. Mostly an easy forest walk. There is an open field area where they have an equestrian ring, there's chum salmon hatchery, bridal falls veil and fish ladder, lagoon, and plenty of up and down changing elevation that you're never bored. You don't need super specialized footwear for this. Just simple comfortable casual shoes or runners are fine. We saw a woodpecker at the entrance of maple trail. Dragonflies, ducks, herons, squirrels, sparrows, and so much more. Killarney Lake is one of the must-see places of Bowen Island. Make sure to plan out 3 to 4 hrs in total if you plan to walk around...

Beautiful park with nice lake. We tried to cycle around which is not possible. Ended up cycling up a steep hill where the trial splits for those on foot vs cycle. We were going around clockwise. But beautiful scenery and amazing trails to walk, or cycle. There's a pretty clean concrete outhouse at the parking lot. Cycling access: there is an auxiliary path that's within 400m of the ferry. We ended up just taking bikes on the ferry and spent the day at the park. Lots to...

Steep and short trail from a roundabout parking area or do the longer hike from Snug Cove. Trail is easy to manage with tennis shoes from the parking spot at base. Small grassy area on top. About 90% of the view is blocked by trees. Not worth going up there again unless it has not rained and you want to lay in the...