Panorama Ridge Hike Garibaldi, Garibaldi Day Hikes

The below photos were taken at garibaldi lake at the beginning of june 2017 admittedly after a snowy winter.

Gazeta panorama sot per pensionet. The trail to panorama ridge rises to 2070m above sea level and often remains snow covered well into the summer months. Its possible to do it as a long day hike though in total youd have to hike 31 kilometres and climb over 1500 metres. So on a warm sunny weekend in mid octoberat the tail end of hiking season in the pacific northwestdan and i drove to canada in order to undertake the 21 mile panorama ridge hike in british columbias.

This wide extremely well marked path gains nearly 1000 m with switchbacks all the way upyou will approach a junction showing the taylor meadows campground to the left and the garibaldi lake campground to the right. The hike is a very long strenuous day hike as its 29km 18 miles roundtrip from the rubble creek parking lot with 1520 meters 4987 feet of elevation gain. Panorama ridge offers an incredible view overlooking garibaldi lake.

The panorama ridge hike is 65 kilometres one way from garibaldi lake. For this reason some people prefer to hike to garibaldi lake or taylor meadows and camp overnight before completing the hike to panorama ridge the following day. While many hikers do complete this trail in a day the distance and elevation gain to panorama ridge make for a very long day.

The hike is best done as a multi day trip with camping at garibaldi lake taylor meadows or helm creek. Panorama ridge is a 176 mile heavily trafficked loop trail located near cheakamus 11 british columbia canada that features a lake and is only recommended for very experienced adventurers. Garibaldi provincial park offers several of the most amazing hikes in southwest bc and within the park itself no hike is more amazing than panorama ridge.

Sitting at 2100m panorama ridge towers over garibaldi lake and offers a spectacular landscape of snow capped mountains and of course the picture perfect turquoise glacier lake. The trail is primarily used for hiking camping and backpacking and is best used from june until october. After seeing photos of garibaldi lake from the panorama ridge hike dan and i immediately knew we would have to make the trip to canada.

Note that the lake itself is 9 kilometres one way from the parking lot. T he view from panorama ridge in garibaldi provincial park is undoubtedly one of the best in british columbia. Panorama ridge trek near whistler british columbia is a worthwhile trail in canada leading via garibaldi lake to the ridge from where is a stunning view over the lake and surrounding mountains.