Joffre Lakes Provincial Park is a gorgeous park with extraordinarily coloured lakes, waterfalls, stunning mountain peaks and ominous glaciers pouring into the valley. Joffre Lakes is one of those incredible places that makes it hard to take a boring picture. The three Joffre Lakes are some of the most stunning lakes you are likely to ever see.
Each lake gets progressively more beautiful and impossibly turquoise from one to the next. By the third lake the intense colour is breathtaking. The mighty Matier Glacier rises above and beyond the third lake, making the experience even more spectacular with such a looming presence. Located an hours drive north of Whistler in the vast wilderness of mountains split by the Duffy Lake Road. Expect to take an hour to drive the 61 kilometres to the trailhead. There are three lakes in Joffre Lakes Provincial Park and all of them beautiful on their own. The first lake, Lower Joffre Lake is just steps from the parking lot/trailhead and the views are already fantastic. It has a wonderful turquoise colour that comes from light reflecting off particles of rock suspended in the glacier meltwater. The lake is surrounded by pristine wilderness of uniformly idyllic trees. Looking across the lake, two mountains frame a distant glacier, which looks strangely close and ominously huge. It is the Matier Glacier which fills the steep valley above the third of the Joffre Lakes, Upper Joffre Lake, and marks the end of the trail that you just started. Partway between Lower Joffre Lake and Upper Joffre Lake is Middle Joffre Lake. More details, directions and maps for Joffre Lakes.
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