Squamish River Branch 250

Sea To Sky Natural Resource District
Distance
2.50 km
Last Road Report
Aug 09, 2025
Closures
No Posted Closures
Location
Squamish River Branch 250
Permit Holder
Northwest Squamish Forestry Ltd.
Waypoints
Conditions
Start to 0.3 km
Heavily Degraded
124d ago
0.3 to 2.5 km
Somewhat Degraded
130d ago
Description

This is the access branch used to reach the Tricouni Peak trail head.

Road Bulletins
Norbert Schaffer reported on: Aug 09, 2025
Was able to make it past the washout in a stock 23 Tundra. Undercarriage and bumpers touched down especially back bumper on return trip. Seems pinstripey but paint job looks fine afterwards.
laurent gervais reported on: Aug 03, 2025
I'll have to disagree with the latest posting and confirm that the ditch is still quite difficult. I couldn't do it with my 2010 lifted rav4 due to traction issue. Only saw jeeps and tacomas at the real trailhead
Tareef Dedhar reported on: Jul 28, 2025
Went for a drive after work to test a friend's new rig. Have heard it's worse than it used to be, but it wasn't that bad. A good crossover can still get to the trailhead. The big washout is deep but wide, so bumpers won't get crunched too easily. Beyond that, there are some ruts and holes, but open diffs are fine with any modern traction control system. Overgrowth is not pinstripy yet, just a little annoying at worst. If you can get to this branch, you're probably good to get all the way tbh. The branch 200 section has actually degraded over the last couple years, more so than this
Hh Crerar reported on: Sep 30, 2024
The impasse at 700m has eroded and there's a large patch of loose dirt on the far side. Some Ford F150s made it across but most cars parked before the washout. Past that it's in good shape for a couple more kilometres, then reaches a large hole which would be difficult to avoid.
Theo Taylor reported on: Aug 08, 2024
Thought i'd say it isn't impossible... Made it to the end of the spur for a Tricouni hike, pretty doable in something like a suzuki sidekick. Made it up in a stock clearance tacoma but barely squeezed across a semi-washed out bridge around 2km, there’s plenty of parking space right before that bridge for rigs that made it through the washout but too wide to squeeze past. A few other manageable drainage ditches along the way and it gets pretty rocky and bushed-in during the final stretch up to the parking. If you plan to go past the first washout, I hope you aren’t worried about pinstripes! (At least in the summer)
Ryan Lynne reported on: Aug 06, 2024
Impasse has been filled, easily made it through with a stock 4runner and some momentum. Pin stripping gets bad near the top, if you care about this stop and walk the rest (extra 15-20min each way).
Mike Barrass reported on: Feb 06, 2024
Katrina Kuba posted on Facebook in the Squamish Ski Mountaineering & Mountain Running Club, that this branch has a washout right at the start of it. This is the road to Tricouni