Happy 100th Birthday to Strathcona Park
The Forbidden Plateau section Strathcona Parks
this map well be updated soon to add in circlet lake area to
Here
you have a map of the forbidden Plateau from the new park
info center. The yellow to the left is the
meadow board walk trail.
Below is a close-up of the Mount Albert Edwards area back to Helen Mackenzie lake
area. to do Albert Edwards is a day, you'll need all day. 13
hours or more around trip
There are 4 main loop trails through the Forbidden
Plateau area. these are the paradise
Meadows loop 3.8km, Helen Mackenzie lake loop 8.7km(or 7.6lkm when new
Centennial trail project is finished), Kawi Lake loop 16.8km and the last and longest one which loops around
Moat Lake (which covers Mount Edward Albert, Mount Frink, Castlecrag Mountain and back
which is 40+km from info center. the main trail of the Forbidden Plateau
is the Kawi lake loop trail and all other trails join or leave this
main loop trail. all the other trails traverse the plateau which
will take you through the Plateau from
either Mount Becher (the old Wood Mountain Ski hill)(fairly easy) or over Mount Edward
Albert to Augerpoint Mountain and down to buttle lake(harder)(not shown yet). the last traverse takes you from
Mount Frink overland to Comox Glacier (hardest)(not shown yet).
Un-deformed map image
