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Squamish, BC

Alice Lake & Diamond Head

Squamish sits on the Sea-to-Sky between Vancouver and Whistler, and plenty of riders who planned to drive through end up staying the week. Granite slab, deep loam, roots, and steep coastal forest, spread across Diamond Head, Alice Lake, Valleycliffe and Crumpit Woods. Half Nelson made the town famous, but the slab riding is what people talk about on the way home. It's all built and signed by SORCA, and the signage is better than most places charge for.

  • 350+ miles across Diamond Head, Alice Lake, Valleycliffe and Crumpit Woods

  • Granite slab, loam, roots, steep coastal tech

  • Peak Season: May to October, wet shoulders either side

  • No lift. Diamond Head road access makes shuttling easy

  • Vancouver (YVR) 1:30 / Whistler 45min

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Why We Love Squamish

Granite slabs with the ocean behind you, and a flow trail that made the town famous. Real mountain town, bucket-list riding.

Our Top Trails To Ride in Squamish

Trails are free and maintained by the Squamish Off-Road Cycling Association, funded through memberships, events and donations. The classification system is consistent across zones and every trail is flagged as either flowy or technical, which makes planning a day easy, so use Trailforks and trust the ratings. Season runs roughly May through October. Slab gets slick fast when it's wet and coastal roots are worse. Bears are around, so make noise on blind climbs. Diamond Head has the road access if you want to shuttle.

Machine-built berms and rollers with nothing mandatory in the air. The trail everyone names, and it holds up.

Less outright speed than Half Nelson, but the berms near the bottom are enormous.

Short, all slab, and the clearest possible answer to what Squamish riding actually is.

Loamy and rooty the whole way down, no big features, just constant work.

Get To Know

Get To Know

Squamish Off-Road Cycling Association

SORCA manages the entire Squamish network, building, maintaining, signing, and advocating for continued access across a mix of Crown and private land. The consistency you'll notice in the signage and trail ratings is theirs. Memberships are cheap, the trails are free, and the math on that only works because riders keep signing up. Grab one before your trip.

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