Brandywine Meadows Hiking Trail near Whistler, BC

Laura from North Vancouver writes:

Just wanted to clarify that from Highway 99, I turned left up the paved road that goes to Callaghan Valley, took the first left and drove past the transfer station, kept left and entered the snowmobile park clearing. From here, I could not see where to go. Thanks!!

Posted: May 28, 2010 09:31:10 PM PST

Laura from North Vancouver writes:

How do I drive the the trailhead? I tried to find the trailhead in September 2009, but the directions in the Dawn Hannah guidebook are out of date. Can anyone offer directions now that the Olympic Park construction is finished? Thank you!!!!

Posted: May 28, 2010 09:24:37 PM PST

Alice from Vancouver writes:

I was up there yesterday (Aug. 23) and there were hardly any bugs - looks like we missed them. What a wonderful hike!

Posted: August 24, 2009 09:54:10 AM PST

Brian Hampson from Burnaby, BC writes:

Took the 4x4 route in and enjoyed a lovely walk through the meadows on Sunday August 2, 2009. Some knob left a snowmobile up there last winter. I hope they take it out soon before it rusts and becomes an oily blight.

VERY buggy. The deer flies were trying to fly off with bits of us.

A little mud but not much. Seems we missed the prime wildflower time. It must have come early with the hot weather.

Posted: August 5, 2009 12:57:22 PM PST

Ryan from Port Moody writes:

Worth it at the end. The creek through the meadow is gorgeous. Lots of flies everywhere though. Only infrequent breezes would keep them away. Steep but short haul up to the meadow.

I didn't like the lack of established and marked alpine/meadow trails. A number of people walked all over killing the fragile vegetation. The trail is not very well defined at points in the meadow.

To Joel: the no vehicle sign was at a fork, and on the left side. It appears that the sign is with respect to either private property or caretaker property just beyond the left fork. The right fork after the snowmobile parking lot heads up to the trailhead.

Lastly, for directions, callaghan forest service road is not the callaghan creek road. We went up the callaghan forest service road and hit some pretty bad overgrown roads and dead ends before we came back and tried elsewhere. We then turned in where the signs for the whistler waste and garbage facility was. The directions are somewhat misleading since we just went along the highway until we saw a sign with callaghan, but that was the wrong turnoff.

Posted: July 26, 2009 09:12:02 PM PST

Joel from Vancouver writes:

I tried to do this hike about 3 weeks ago. The road up to the parking area has a sign posted "No Vehicle Access past this point". I don't know if this hike is fully accessibile aymore...does anyone have any information on it or has anyone done this hike in 2009?

Posted: July 11, 2009 04:53:56 PM PST

Linda from Burnaby writes:

A very steep hike, but it is well worth it. The meadows with the little streams and the mountains in the background are stunning. We ran into a black bear on the way up. We saw each other and without hesitation he turned around and ran down the hill, across the river and he was gone, leaving me behind with a bouncing heart.

Posted: September 16, 2008 11:55:00 PM PST