Sea To Sky Country
The term "Corridor" refers to the alignment of the region's towns along Highway 99, also known as the Sea to Sky Highway, which links together the regions' three main centres - Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton. There is little development other than resource extraction outside the immediate vicinity of the highway and the towns along it, hence the linear character of the region. As with the overlap with the historical region known as Lillooet Country from Cheakamus Canyon northwards, the southern part of the region overlaps with Greater Vancouver and also with a more general and less unified but identifiable region around Howe Sound, the islands and western shore of which are respectively part of the Gulf Islands and Sunshine Coast.
Communities
The Sea to Sky Country falls readily into three major subregions. These are, south to north:
Howe Sound-Squamish
- Lions Bay
- Furry Creek
- Britannia Beach
- Darrell Bay (a.k.a. Shannon Falls)
- Stawamus
- Valleycliffe
- Squamish
- Brackendale
- Chiyakmesh
- Cheekye
- Paradise Valley
Cheakamus-Whistler
- Garibaldi (abandoned/condemned)
- Pinecrest Estates
- Black Tusk Estates
- Whistler
Pemberton Valley
Birkenhead-Gates Valley
The designation Sea to Sky Highway ends at Mount Currie , though Highway 99 continues on northwards over Cayoosh Pass to Lillooet. Locations beyond Mount Currie-Lillooet Lake along the route of the rail line and the frontier-era Douglas Road are not usually considered in the Corridor, but sometimes are even though they are not on the Sea to Sky Highway. This further subregion is defined by the lower valley of the Birkenhead River and the Birken Valley and Gates Valley towards Anderson Lake. Socially and economically this area is part of or adjunct to the Pemberton subregion, though not in the Pemberton Valley:
Parks
Provincial
- Murrin Provincial Park
- Stawamus Chief Provincial Park
- Alice Lake Provincial Park
- Garibaldi Provincial Park
- Shannon Falls Provincial Park
- Brandywine Falls Provincial Park
- Callaghan Lake Provincial Park
- Nairn Falls Provincial Park
- Birkenhead Lake Provincial Park
- Joffre Lakes Provincial Park
Regional
Municipal
- Lost Lake Park, Whistler
- Rainbow Lodge, Whistler
- One Mile Lake, Pemberton
See also
References
External links
- Sea to Sky travel guide from Wikivoyage