Stretch your legs and breathe deeply!  Smell the fresh mountain air as you hike along creeks, through forests and past beautiful meadows.  Click on the names of the hikes for more detailed information.

Kinney Lake Trail

(2.5 hours, return): From the Berg Lake Trail parking lot, the trail winds through old-growth cedar/hemlock forest as it follows the Robson River to Kinney Lake. This gentle 4.5 km (one way) hike offers incredible scenery and wildlife viewing opportunities.  Bicycles allowed.  Dogs on leash.

Cranberry Marsh Trail

The hiking trail is a beautiful 7 km walk on flat terrain through conserved wetland. The trail leads to a dike system and two observation towers, with scenery that varies from wide-open vistas on the dikes to secluded pathways through black spruce and aspen.  The Sanctuary is an important stop for waterfowl on their migration routes, and many other species of wildlife can be seen throughout the year.  Depending on your pace, the trail around the marsh can take from 1.5 - 3 hours.  Bicycles allowed.  Dogs on leash.

Mile 53 Ghost Town

Enjoy this short walk to view the ruins of a short-lived railway construction town.  Well-made stone and concrete fireplaces mark the sites of houses built for higher-up officials who were contracted to build the entire BC section of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.  Walk up the road away from the tracks and you will come to a footpath which crosses Shelter Creek on a footbridge.  The bridge and an unmaintained trail beyond will take you to the "main street" of Mile 53 where faint ditches mark the routes of the town water system.  On the right side of the "street" - now little more than a forest trail - a few old fireplaces can be found.  The old houses have disappeared except for the fireplaces and part of the square-timber walls of one residence.

Take Highway 5 north to Blackman Road, and then turn on to Old Tete Jaune Road across the tracks and onto a gravel Forest Service Road.  Allow 15 to 45 minutes, depending on how much exploring is done.  Not recommended for bicycles.  Dogs okay off leash.

Swift Creek Loop

This trail was built in the early 2000's by local residents, including a number of mountain biking enthusiasts.  It passes through a number of different types of environments. including sandy ridges, open pine forests, interior grasslands, dense forests and Western Red Cedar trees, as it travels up one side of Swift Creek, across a sizeable footbridge and down the other side.  There are a few different ways to hike this trail, which are described in detail if you click on the link above.  Allow about 2 to 3 hours for the round trip to/from your vehicle.  Great for mountain bikes.  Dogs okay off leash.

Tete Jaune Salmon Spawning Grounds

This is an easy 20 to 40 minute walk (return) to a salmon spawning area and unique riverine ecosystem along the Fraser River.  From the BC Forest Service Tete Jaune Salmon Spawning Grounds Recreation Site, the trail leads down the McLennan River and through a typical bottomland forest to the Fraser.  Extensive areas of open country and numerous back channels make this a most interesting area to explore.  Salmon may be seen spawning here in late July and early August.  From Valemount travel north on Highway 5 to Blackman Road, to Old Tete Jaune Road, to the first railway crossing.  Just across the tracks a sign marks the entrance to the Spawning Grounds Recreation Site.  Allow 20 to 40 minutes round trip. 

Little Lost Lake Trail

From Highway 16 this trail will take you uphill through a forest of Douglas fir, hybrid spruce, aspen and birch, then along an old roadbed which climbs moderately for a short distance, leading to a picnic area at a small lake.  Allow 1 1/2 to 2 hours round trip, plus time for a picnic on the lake.  Not recommended for bicycles.  Dogs okay off leash.