Golden Ears
Golden Ears is the name of the double summit that lies north of Maple Ridge, British Columbia and is visible from most of the western Lower Mainland. The mountain is in Golden Ears Provincial Park, and was originally referred to as Golden Eyries, possibly for golden eagles that were observed near the summit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: The High Fin Sperm Whale, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Edge Peak and Blanshard Peak.
Edge Peak
Peak
Photo: Tsylos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Edge Peak is a summit in the Golden Ears Group, located in Golden Ears Provincial Park north of Maple Ridge, British Columbia. The peak is not named for its shape but rather for Sam Edge who climbed it in 1876.
Blanshard Peak
Peak
Photo: Tsylos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Blanshard Peak also known as The Blanshard Needle by local climbers is a distinctive rock pinnacle in Golden Ears Provincial Park that is visible from many places in the Lower Mainland.
Evans Peak
Peak
Photo: The High Fin Sperm Whale, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Evans Peak is a peak to the Northwest of Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Provincial Park, British Columbia. The peak is named for a father and son, Leslie and John Evans, who vanished in the valley between Edge Peak and Blanshard Peak in the spring of 1966.
Golden Ears
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,716 metres
- Description: group of mountains in British Columbia, Canada
- Categories: group of mountains and landform
- Location: Fraser Valley Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
49.36286° or 49° 21′ 46″ northLongitude
-122.50738° or 122° 30′ 27″ westElevation
1,716 metres (5,630 feet)Open location code
84XV9F7V+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 512632883OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Golden Ears” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Golden Ears (tontorrak)”
- Basque: “Golden Ears”
- Cebuano: “Golden Ears”
- Chinese: “金穗山”
- Dutch: “Golden Ears”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل جولدين يارس”
- German: “Golden Ears”
- Swedish: “Golden Ears”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Golden Ears”. Photo: The High Fin Sperm Whale, CC BY-SA 3.0.