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Sea-to-Sky Corridor

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238: 177: 832: 1287: 170: 222: 152: 1299: 22: 410:, also known as the Sea to Sky Highway, which links together the regions' three main centres - Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton. There is little development other than resource extraction outside the immediate vicinity of the highway and the towns along it, hence the linear character of the region. As with the overlap with the historical region known as Lillooet Country from 159: 1311: 245: 391:, at the region's centre, was once the southward extension in the days when it was the rail-port terminus from the Interior, via Lillooet, and accessible from the Lower Mainland only by sea. Most of the region is in the 863: 631:
are not usually considered in the Corridor, but sometimes are even though they are not on the Sea to Sky Highway. This further subregion is defined by the lower valley of the
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northwards, the southern part of the region overlaps with Greater Vancouver and also with a more general and less unified but identifiable region around
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to Lillooet. Locations beyond Mount Currie-Lillooet Lake along the route of the rail line and the frontier-era
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The designation Sea to Sky Highway ends at Mount Currie , though Highway 99 continues on northwards over
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The Sea to Sky Country falls readily into three major subregions. These are, south to north:
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The term "Corridor" refers to the alignment of the region's towns along
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Howe Sound
Stawamus Chief Provincial Park
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Pemberton Valley
Lower Joffre Lake
Joffre Peak
Map of the Sea-to-Sky Corridor
Sea-to-Sky Corridor is located in British Columbia
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49°56′10″N 123°10′00″W / 49.9361°N 123.1667°W / 49.9361; -123.1667
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