Haida Gwaii Trail
St. Mary’s Spring Trail
Moderate
Tlell
Distance
3 km
Time
2 hrs
Elevation Gain
40 m
About This Trail
St. Mary's Spring sits beside Highway 16 near Lawn Hill, about halfway between Skidegate and Tlell. The spring was named in the early 1920s by Annie Richardson after a spring she knew in England, and a carved wooden Madonna stands beside it. Local legend says that if you drink from the spring, you will return to Haida Gwaii.
From the spring, the escarpment trail climbs about 40 metres through dense forest thick with mosses and ferns — keep an eye out for fairy slipper orchids in spring. The route is a narrow single-track, roughly 3 km out and back, and takes about 2 hours.
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