Blanshard Peak, Maple Ridge

Name: Blanshard Peak
Address: Maple Ridge, Canada

#1 among attractions in Maple Ridge

Nature, Natural attraction, Top attraction, Mountain

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Blanshard Peak also known as The Blanshard Needle by local climbers is a distinctive rock pinnacle in Golden Ears Provincial Park that is visible from many places in the Lower Mainland. Named for the first governor of the colony of Vancouver Island, the name of the summit and area is the subject of some confusion due to the labeling of the entire Golden Ears Group on the published maps for the area. Mount Blanshard is the proper name of the Golden Ears massif, and later became attached by authors of climbing guides to the summit at the southern end of the group. ()

First ascent: 1918Elevation: 5085 ftProminence: 558 ftCoordinates: 49°20'36"N, 122°30'0"W

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Blanshard Peak – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Golden Eagle Golf Club, Golden Ears, Edge Peak, Malcolm Knapp Research Forest.

6.3 miSW
49°17'35"N • 122°36'58"W
Golden Eagle Golf Club, Pitt Meadows
160 min walk • Outdoor activities, Golf
1.4 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Golden Ears, Golden Ears Provincial Park
36 min walk • Golden Ears is the name of the double summit that lies north of Maple Ridge, British Columbia and is visible from most of the western Lower Mainland.
0.9 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Edge Peak, Golden Ears Provincial Park
23 min walk • Edge Peak is a summit in the Golden Ears Group, located in Golden Ears Provincial Park north of Maple Ridge, British Columbia. The peak is not named for its shape but rather for Sam Edge who climbed it in 1876.
3.4 miSW
Park
Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, Maple Ridge
88 min walk • The Malcolm Knapp Research Forest is located in the Coast Mountains, about 60 km from Vancouver, in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. The forest is approximately 5,157 hectares and has many different types of terrain. The forest is home to some 400-year-old trees, though the vast majority of trees are 70–120 years old.
3.9 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Alouette Lake, Maple Ridge
100 min walk • Alouette Lake, originally Lillooet Lake and not to be confused with the lake of that name farther north, is a lake and reservoir in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.
5.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Pitt Lake
142 min walk • Pitt Lake is the second-largest lake in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. About 53.5 km² in area, it is about 25 km long and about 4.5 km wide at its widest. It is one of the world's relatively few tidal lakes, and among the largest.
1.4 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Golden Ears Group, Golden Ears Provincial Park
36 min walk • The Golden Ears is the name used by the Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia for a group of mountains in the southern portion of Golden Ears Provincial Park, and visible to most of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.
1.1 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Evans Peak, Maple Ridge
29 min walk • Evans Peak is a peak to the Northwest of Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Provincial Park, British Columbia. The peak is named for a father and son, Leslie and John Evans, who vanished in the valley between Edge Peak and Blanshard Peak in the spring of 1966.