Destinations

British Columbia’s oldest park: the mountain heart of Vancouver Island, with the Golden Hinde, Della Falls and the Forbidden Plateau.

The Matterhorn of the Rockies above Lake Magog, reached only on foot or by helicopter, between Banff and Kootenay national parks.

Glaciers, more than 30 alpine lakes and a classic backcountry cabin in the Selkirk Mountains north of Nelson.

A 29-mile (47 km) coastal trail west of Victoria: beaches, surge channels and tide pools, with floats marking the way.

Three turquoise glacier lakes stacked below the Matier Glacier, a short, steep climb from the Duffey Lake Road north of Whistler.

Rugged Coast Mountain peaks and Alouette Lake on the edge of Metro Vancouver, with a summit climb that tests the unprepared.

Subalpine meadows, the Heather Trail and the end of the Pacific Crest Trail, three hours from Vancouver on Highway 3.

Turquoise alpine lakes and the Rim Trail’s granite formations above the Ashnola River, reached only on foot by a long, steep climb.

Old-growth spruce, deep mud and long white-sand beaches at the far northwest tip of Vancouver Island.

A 72-mile (116 km) ring of lakes, rivers and portages in the Cariboo Mountains, paddled over six to ten days.