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If you are just visiting Porteau Cove Provincial Park for the day, park beside the jetty. This is a wonderful place to enjoy the spectacular views of Howe Sound while watching wet-suited divers enter or emerge from the cold waters of the Sound. Eat your picnic at one of the numerous tables spread around the broad, driftwood-littered beaches on both sides of the jetty. Aptly named Anvil Island sits to the southwest, while the glaciated peaks of the Tantalus Range rise in the northwest. Take a walk to the viewpoint on the trail that leads west from the walk-in campsites and up onto the forested bluff. Stunted shore pines (a coastal variety of lodgepole pine) and stately Sitka spruce provide shelter on the point, from where you can look down on the cove or out across the waters of the sound. This is a quiet place in which to enjoy the surroundings, especially in the early or late hours of the day, or to stop for an off-season breather from the pressures of the highway.

Murrin Provincial Park enjoys a placid lakeside location about 2 miles (3 km) north of Britannia Beach, on the west side of Hwy 99. The waters of Browning Lake lap the shoulder of the highway. Picnic tables dot the far side of the little lake, some sheltered in the forest, others in the open. This is a good place to stop for a snack while you check the road or trail map.

With almost a half-million visitors annually, Shannon Falls Provincial Park is one of the most popular picnic spots in the entire Sea to Sky corridor. Located on the east side of Hwy 99 just south of Stawamus Chief Mountain, extensive picnic grounds surround the base of BC's third-highest waterfall (1,105 feet/335 m). In summer months the parking lot is full by noon, with half of the visitors arriving by tour bus. Picnic tables are located beside Shannon Creek and in the Loggers Sports Field nearby. A boardwalk leads to a viewing platform near the base of the roaring falls. From here you can gaze up the smooth sides of the granite walls over which the falls foam and tumble. At low flow, the falls does little more than veil the rockface. In feistier seasons, when the falls gives off an almighty roar, its spray will drench you if you get too close. Some people (the cold shower types) don't mind and follow a rough trail that leads from the viewing platform to the base of the falls. Often the best time to picnic here is on the first warm days of spring and the last ones of fall, when water levels in the falls are running strong.

As befits a region that receives over a million visitors a year, equally divided between summer and winter and all equally focused on enjoying the outdoors, there are plenty of idyllic picnic sites around Whistler/ Blackcomb. Special mention should be made of both Rainbow and Meadow Parks. Picnicking at these sites is done on a grander scale than the rest. Rainbow Park has many tables dotted beside a group of heritage cabins on the west side of Alta Lake. Some of the log structures have been relocated to the property, while others are all that remain from the days of the Rainbow Lodge, for years Whistler's premier accommodation. Meadow Park, in Alpine Meadows, has a delightful picnic location on the banks of the River of Golden Dreams, with a combined view of Blackcomb and Whistler Mountains that is one of the best in the valley. Lakeside Park occupies an open area on the southeast side of Alta Lake. A lawn runs down to the beach with its two L-shaped docks. There are six well-spaced picnic tables here, most with their own barbeques.