Gowlland Tod/Mt Work

15.0 km point to point.

Terrain: Intermediate

Elevations (in meters)
Net Gain:		Cumulative Gain:	600

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Trailheads

Transportation is required at both ends.

Caleb Pike Road Trailhead: (18 km from Saanich Hall). Drive north from Victoria for 10.4 km to Millstream Lake Road, turn right and continue for 5.4 km to Millstream Road, turn left and continue to Caleb Pike Road (just past the Caleb Pike Homestead). Turn left and drive .6 km to the trailhead. Park at the side of the road.

Fork Lake Trailhead: From Saanich Hall take the Trans-Canada Highway turning right at the Helmecken Road exit. Turn left on Burnside Rd West, then right on Prospect Lake Road. Follow this to Munn Road, turn left and look for the parking lot on your right.

Mt Work Trailhead: (intermedidate trailhead, 10 km from Saanich Hall). Drive north from Victoria on BC#17, take the Royal Oak exit, turning left on Royal Oak Drive. Turn right on West Saanich Road and continue until you come to Wallace Drive (on your left, just past a barn market). Follow this to Willis Point Road on your left which you take until you see the Mt Work turnoff sign on the left side of the road. Park in the Mt Work parking area a short ways down this road.

Facilities available at the trailhead include:

Toilets and/or outhouses

Uses

Dayhike

4 boot (moderate to strenuous).

Suitable all year.

Description

This route starts at the Caleb Pike parking lot in Gowland Tod Park and follows the full Gowland Tod trail north to the Mt Work parking lot and then over Mt Work to the Munn Road parking lot.

Features

This trail features flowers, forests and views.

Other trails in Gowlland-Tod Provincial Park

Elbow Point
Gowlland Range/Jocelyn Hill
Gowlland Tod
Holmes Peak
Jocelyn Hill (from Caleb Pike)
Jocelyn Hill (from McKenzie Bight)
McKenzie Bight
Partridge Hills to Todd Inlet
Ridgetop Trail, Elbow Point, South Shore Trail Loop

Trail-conditions

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