Green Lake is stunning, vivid turquoise coloured lake just north of Whistler Village. The Sea to Sky Highway runs along the edge of the lake for most of its length, giving you excellent view of its stunning colour surrounded by thick forests rising up to mountains. Along the highway there is a nice pull-out viewpoint that gives you a fantastic view of Green Lake, Wedge Mountain, Blackcomb Mountain and Whistler Mountain beyond.
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There is a small neighbourhood with houses lining the shore of Green Lake near the highway. Tucked into this neighbourhood is a very small, easy to miss park right on the waterfront. Green Lake Park is a small section of land along the shore of this beautiful lake. Squeezed between two houses, the park looks like a vacant lot where a house would have been built. Instead of a house there is a small building with washrooms and a nice little forest with picnic tables. The rocky shore is perfect for launching a canoe and there is a public storage area for canoes and kayaks. Green Lake Park is directly across from Parkhurst Ghost Town, a derelict old logging town long abandoned. The ghost town is easy to spot with its abandoned log loader perched on the edge of the lake, almost directly across from the park. This huge, very solid metal machine that looks somewhat like a tractor has been sitting there for several decades. Looking like a museum piece, this beautiful piece of history marks the entrance to Parkhurst if you are arriving by boat. A trail cuts through the bushes, crosses the train tracks, then ascends up a short hill into the forest where you will find many collapsed houses, one still standing and dozens of interesting curiosities. There is a hiking and biking trail to Parkhurst, but paddling across the Green Lake from Green Lake Park is the easiest and nicest way to get there.
Cute and Cosy Green Lake Park
Green Lake Park to Parkhurst
Looking across Green Lake from the shore of Green Lake Park you can see Mount Cook, Armchair Glacier, Rethel Mountain, Wedge Mountain in the clouds and Parkhurst Mountain. The old Parkhurst Ghost Town is well hidden in the forest in the foreground of the mountains. Parkhurst Ghost Town is in the foreground and directly across from Green Lake Park. There is a great wooden platform next to the large Parkhurst Caterpillar tractor which is perfect to park your boat. A trail leads up to the Parkhurst Loop Trail which takes you through some of the old ghost town. If you want to see the site of the old sawmill is is location on the peninsula of land next to the dock. It is only about 50 metres away and well worth seeing, though you have to do a little bushwhacking to get there.
Mountains From Green Lake Park
Sunrise at Green Lake Park
Green Lake Park and Parkhurst Map
Green Lake Pier & Boat Launch
Green Lake Park is officially just this small, forested area of waterfront, however, locals generally include the nearby boat launch as Green Lake Park. Just a couple hundred metres away, adjacent to the highway is the Green Lake boat launch. Here you will find a nice L-shaped pier with a similarly gorgeous views. There is another public, pay-to-use canoe/kayak storage rack near the pier. This part of Green Lake is very good for fishing as well as being a stunning place to relax in the sun.
Green Lake Pier and Boat Launch
Green Lake Pier or Park to Parkhurst
From the Green Lake Pier or Green Lake Park you can drop your canoe in the water and paddle across the lake and get to Parkhurst in just 5 minutes. There are two good places to park your boat across Green Lake. The big wooden platform is the best dock for seeing the old sawmill site at Parkhurst as well as the Parkhurst Loop Trail up in the forest where most of the houses were. This dock is also next to the impressively huge derelict Caterpillar logging tractor that leans menacingly over the shore of the lake. This old Caterpillar D8 tractor was built in 1936 and left here in 1956 when Parkhurst was abandoned.
Beautiful Green Lake from the Green Lake Pier
The Parkhurst Ghost Town Dock
The Parkhurst Ghost Town Caterpillar
Green Lake Pier or Park to Parkhurst Ridge
The other good place to dock across the lake is the tiny pier adjacent to the train tracks. From the Green Lake Pier or Green Lake Park you just have to paddle to the left of the peninsula where the old Parkhurst Sawmill was located. You will see the cute little pier between the peninsula and Parkhurst Ridge. If you wan to go to Parkhurst you just have to cross the tracks and look for the tiny railway hut in the trees and the trail that leads up to Parkhurst. If you want to head up to Parkhurst Ridge you just have to follow the track to the left and find the Parkhurst Ridge Trail on your left that lead up to the beautiful ridge overlooking Green Lake.
Parkhurst Ridge View of Green Lake
Green Lake Park to the Toad Hall Site
Another nice place to canoe to from Green Lake Park or the Green Lake Pier is the site of the old Soo Valley Logging camp which became the second incarnation of Toad Hall in the early 1970's. The abandoned logging camp was taken over by skiers in the very early days of Whistler and was immortalized in a photo taken shortly before the camp was demolished. The photo was taken in front of Toad Hall with several skiers wearing nothing but ski boots. The photo was made into a poster and forever captured an extraordinary time and place in Whistler. The buildings, including Toad Hall are long gone and the site is a wonderfully tranquil, grassy field at the north end of Green Lake. South facing, it always seems to be sunny and there is something unusual you feel while there. It is weirdly peaceful and you can't help but feel some strange connection to the good times that went on in this beautiful place. To find it you just have to paddle across Green Lake and bear left until you get to the north end of Green Lake. You will easily spot it to the left of the start of Green River about a 7 minute canoe ride from the Green Lake Pier.
Toad Hall in the 1970's
Below is a picture taken at the same location in 2021. Where the Soo Valley Logging houses and Toad Hall once stood is now a beautifully serene little corner of Whistler. With no access from the Parkhurst side of Green River this piece of land is a bit isolated and tricky to get to on foot. You have to walk in from the Sea to Sky Highway and finding parking along the highway is tricky.
The Toad Hall Site in 2021
Parkhurst Land Purchase in 2017
In 2017 the Resort Municipality of Whistler purchased the Parkhurst lands (200acres/81 hectares), including the land where the famous Toad Hall picture was taken. The intent is to preserve the historic land and remaining features into a park, however it is likely to remain mostly unchanged for the foreseeable future.
Directions to Green Lake Park
Green Lake Park is just under 8 kilometres north of Whistler Village(just under 10 minutes to drive there). From Village Gate Boulevard in Whistler Village zero your odometer and drive north on Highway 99. At 7.5 kilometres you will see the sign on your right for Summer Lane. Turn right off the highway, then left onto Summer Lane. Take the next right onto Lakeshore Drive and look for the sign on your right for Green Lake Park. There is room for a couple cars to park just off the road. The Green Lake Boat Launch is just around the corner and there is room for several cars to park there. To find it, continue along Lakeshore Drive, turn left staying on Lakeshore Drive and look for the boat launch sign at the next bend. Biking there from Whistler Village is quite nice and roughly the same distance. You can take the Valley Trail past Lost Lake, then to Green Lake, around Green Lake along Highway 99 where it connects to Summer Lane. It takes about 30 minutes to bike there and even the section along the highway is quite beautiful with views of the lake.
Parkhurst Ghost Town
There are quite a few trails in and around Parkhurst and it can be confusing as you rarely see trail signs and several trails overlap. For example, the Green Lake Loop is the original trail that ran along the back side of Green Lake and then did a loop through Parkhurst. Because the more recently built Sea to Sky Trail overlaps much of Green Lake Loop, the two trails are almost interchangeable. With the Sea to Sky Trail following a newer, more defined route, it tends to overshadow the Green Lake Loop. Also, half of the loop in the Green Lake Loop has morphed in recent years to be called the Parkhurst Trail, as it is the most direct route to the old ghost town. There are several ways to get to Parkhurst Ghost Town and they range from alright to amazing. You can hike from the far end of Green Lake via the Parkhurst Trail (pretty good), the Parkhurst Ridge Trail (amazing), the Green Lake Loop (some of it is nice) or the Sea to Sky Trail(not great) ranging in length from 2.9 kilometres to 3.4 kilometres (one way). Or you can hike or bike in from the south from Lost Lake near Whistler Village along the Sea to Sky Trail and/or the Green Lake Loop. Starting from Lost Lake near Whistler Village, you can hike or bike to Parkhurst along the Sea to Sky Trail/Green Lake Loop in 6.2 kilometres. It is a very nice and wide, gravel trail with a few hills as you ascend up the back of Green Lake. There are several panoramic vantage points over the lake as you wind through the nice forest in a comparatively quiet corner of Whistler.
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