This morning, Steph and I snuck away for an morning hike up in Lynn Headwaters Regional Park. We’re both pretty sure neither of us had been there before, but it was splendid.
Most of the loop is two parallel trails, one that follows the Lynn Creeks east bank. The other trail is still on the east side but is further east, at a higher elevation, and almost out of ear shot of the creek.
Apparently the usual way (more interesting way?) to do the loop is to start out on the trail further away from the creek. This trail starts with a fairly steep section, but is then fairly flat up to the intersection where you can return to the parking lot via the trail running beside the creek.
The full loop that we did was listed as 8 km and recommended allowing 4 hours. We thought it was more like 9 km, and we were back in a bit under three hours. (YMMV as they say)
If you don’t feel like doing the full 8km, there is a second link between the two trails about halfway along. (This will all be obvious when you see the map.)
There are also more challenging trails heading off in a few different directions, but we didn’t investigate them. This is also a great place for dog owners, or anyone else who enjoys meeting dogs on the trail. (Dogs on hiking trails always seem to be their happy place, I reckon.)
