Murrin Provincial Park

Murrin Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located just south of Squamish beside the Sea-to-Sky Highway. The park is approximately 24 ha. in size and has a popular highway-side picnic ground and small swimming lake, but it is most notable for a collection of petroglyphs located away from the highway and accessed by trail.

Photo: Radiowallah, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Park
Description: provincial park in British Columbia, Canada
Also known as: “Murrin Park”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Browning Lake and Watts Point volcanic centre.

Browning Lake

Fishing area

Photo: 天王星, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Browning Lake is a fishing area.

Watts Point volcanic centre

Volcano

The Watts Point volcanic centre is a small outcrop of Pleistocene age volcanic rock at Watts Point in British Columbia, Canada, about 10 kilometres south of Squamish and 40 kilometres north of Vancouver, and just north of Britannia Beach.

Britannia Mine Museum

Museum

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The Britannia Mine Museum, formerly British Columbia Museum of Mining, is a non-profit organization in Britannia Beach, 55 km kilometres north of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on the Sea-to-Sky Highway on Howe Sound. Britannia Mine Museum is situated 2½ km south of Murrin Provincial Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lions Bay-Britannia Beach and Woodfibre.

Lions Bay-Britannia Beach

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Stretching along the eastern shore of Howe Sound, Lions Bay to Britannia Beach is a series of small communities and parks offering some gorgeous views, outdoor recreation and 30 km of some of the most spectacular driving in Canada.

Woodfibre

Locality

Photo: Keefer4, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Woodfibre, originally Britannia West, was a pulp mill and at one time a small company town, on the west side of upper Howe Sound near Squamish, British Columbia. The mill closed in March 2006. Woodfibre is situated 4 km northwest of Murrin Provincial Park.

Squamish

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Squamish is a town of about 20,000 people in the Sea to Sky region of British Columbia half-way between Vancouver and Whistler. Squamish calls itself "the Outdoor Recreation Capital of Canada" due to the abundant rock climbing, hiking, mountain biking, golf, fishing, kayaking, bouldering, white-water rafting, horseback riding, scuba diving and other activities readily available in the area.

Murrin Provincial Park

Category: provincial park of Canada
Location: Squamish, Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

49.64485° or 49° 38′ 42″ north

Longitude

-123.208° or 123° 12′ 29″ west

Elevation

168 metres (551 feet)

Open location code

84XRJQVR+WR

GeoNames ID

6084749

Wikidata ID

Q6939596

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Satellite Map

Discover Murrin Provincial Park from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Murrin Provincial Park” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Murrin Park”
Fulah: “Murrin Provincial Park”
German: “Murrin Park”
German: “Murrin Provincial Park”
Swedish: “Murrin Park”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Browning Lake and Watts Point.

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