Levette Lake

A Great Place for Sunsets and Camp Fires

Andrea's Friends try to visit Levette Lake every year. This year, due to some mix ups, they didn't get organized in time, and the trip collapsed. Andrea, Mark and I wanted to go we went on our own. Levette Lake is just past Squamish in the Brackendale area. The road up is getting pretty rutted so I was glad I was driving my forester.

Yellow Pond-Lily - Nuphar polysepalum - On Lake

We arrived just before sunset and hiked our gear in the 500meters to a nice camp site. The sun sets behind Tantalus Range so there there is a long period of beautiful light, but little orange light on the ground.

This being car camping (roughly) we had no problems bringing in firewood and a cooler full of ice. We made a camp fire and roasted marshmallows.

I've always been a sucker for camp fire photos. The wood we bought did spark a little, but the long exposures makes the sparks and flame look that much larger.

The next morning we went for a hike around the lake to a view point at an old fire spotting cabin. The Squamish River has cut a large valley between the Tantalus range and the plateau that Levette Lake is on. That large separation of space allows the mountains to experience different weather than what we had at the camp site.

After our hike we went for a swim in the lake (it's nice and warm, and there is a large rock our in the lake near the road access that you can sit on.