Callaghan Lake Park is a BC Parks backcountry recreation area in the Callaghan Valley, about 20 kilometres south of Whistler. BC Parks connects the valley with the 2010 Winter Olympics Nordic venue at Whistler Olympic Park.
The park averages 275 centimetres of snowpack and may have 150 days of skiing.
Callaghan Lake Park combines rustic drive-in camping, lake travel, fishing, hiking routes, and winter non-motorized recreation. The official page lists canoeing, kayaking, boating, fishing, hiking, hunting, and winter use, with camping allowed only in the small drive-in campground at Callaghan Lake.
Summer access follows Highway 99, Callaghan Valley Road, and eight kilometres of rough gravel forest service road where high clearance is recommended. From November to early June, the road is gated and becomes a groomed cross-country ski trail.
Hiking trails are not formally developed, but routes can be reached from the rough marked trail toward Conflict Lake and Ring Lake. Cirque Lake is an alpine lake at 1,490 metres that requires a boat crossing and a rough, unmarked, non-maintained hiking trail. Callaghan Lake offers trout and char fishing from shore or small boats.
Plan around rustic campground stays, canoeing, kayaking, trout and char fishing, Callaghan Lake paddling, rough backcountry hiking routes, Cirque Lake planning, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, hunting in season, and winter non-motorized travel.
Camping elsewhere, including lakeshore camping, is prohibited to protect grizzly habitat. Pack out garbage, check FSR conditions, expect minimal cell service, prepare for avalanches and unsafe lake ice, and treat winter travel as wilderness.
