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weekends only the rest of the year), which has an adjacent bird-watching tower that
rises some 11 meters (36 feet) above the surrounding trees. Through January, the gal-
lery is Eagle Count Headquarters, with slide presentations, talks, and other eagle-re-
lated activities. To get to the gallery, follow the main Brackendale access road over
the railway tracks, take the first right, and look for the gallery nestled in the trees on
the right.
Food
For a casual, healthy lunch, it's hard to go past the bright yellow Sunflower Bakery Café
(38086 Cleveland Ave., 604/892-2231, 7:30am-5:30pm daily, lunches $6-8.50), with a large
blackboard filled with choices that change daily, but always include soups, salads, sausages
rolls, and smokies sandwiched between slices of sourdough bread.
Howe Sound Brewery (37801 Cleveland Ave., 604/892-2603, breakfast, lunch, and
dinner daily, $12-18) has a modern restaurant with lots of choices perfect for sharing (cala-
mari, fish tacos, poutine), as well as more substantial choices like jambalaya and thin-crust
pizzas.
Information
For detailed information on Squamish, local provincial parks, and Whistler, follow the
signs from the highway downtown to Squamish Visitor Centre (38551 Loggers Lane, 604/
815-4994 or 866/333-2010, www.tourismsquamish.com , 8:30am-4:30pm daily). It's part of
the Squamish Adventure Centre, home to a theater, an activity booking desk, and a café.
NORTH TOWARD WHISTLER
Garibaldi Provincial Park
This beautiful park encompasses 195,000 hectares (481,850 acres) of pristine alpine wilder-
ness east of Highway 99. Dominated by the snowcapped and glaciated Coast Mountains,
the park reaches a high point at 2,678-meter (8,790-foot) Mount Garibaldi, named in
1860 after Italian soldier and statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi. Other park features include
2,315-meter (7,600-foot) Black Tusk, the Gargoyles (eroded rock formations reached by a
trail from the park's southern entrance), and a 1.6-kilometer-long (one-mile-long) lava flow
above the west side of Garibaldi Lake.
Garibaldi is a true wilderness park, with road access only up to the park boundary. From
late July through early September, the hiking is fabulous—through forests of fir, red cedar,