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Distance: 4-8 km
Difficulty: Easy
By Heather Macdonald

Trail Map

Easily accessible, Mundy Park is bordered by Mariner Way, Como Lake Ave and Austin Ave in Coquitlam. This 442-acre park has 13 km of well-groomed trails in total. Your road shoes will be fine on these wide, well-marked, flat trails.

Dogs are allowed off leash till 10 a.m. and you'll see lots of them. There's even a soccer field where the dogs can run about. Dogs are not permitted near Lost Lake or Mundy Lake.

Here's a 4 km route but you can double the route or take any of the well-marked trails. The Perimeter Trail is 4 km. You might want to print the map and create your own route.

Start at the Chilko/Mariner Way entrance by Lost Lake, keep to the right and you'll find the Perimeter Trail. Turn right and follow Perimeter till you reach the Waterline Trail. Head left on Waterline and follow it 1.3 km till you reach the Perimeter Trail again. Turn right and follow Perimeter past the sports fields, to the intersection of Interlaken Trail. Turn right on Interlaken Trail and you'll find Heart Attack Hill (here's my marathon chant, "You call that a hill. That's no hill; we're from North Van!"), proceed about 1 km back to the Chilko entrance. Start again on another loop if you want more distance.

After your run, there's a Starbucks on Como Lake Ave in the plaza..

How to Get There
From North Van, take the Second Narrows Bridge and the Hastings Exit. Take Hastings Street East till you reach the fork and veer right on Hastings. This becomes Burnaby Mtn Pkwy; follow to Gaglardi. Right on Gaglardi till you see a sign for the Broadway exit on the left. Take the Broadway exit; in a few blacks this becomes Como Lake Ave. Go straight till you reach Mariner Way. Turn right on Mariner and right on Chilko just under the hydro lines where there's parking and a portajohn.

From Vancouver take Lougheed Highway to Austin Road to Mariner Way, turn left on Mariner till you reach Chilko, left on Chilko to the parking area.

From other locations, take Highway #1 to the Coquitlam turnoff, follow Lougheed northeast to United, right on Mariner to Chilko, left on Chilko to the parking area.