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Would Rather Be Fishing
10-29-2018, 01:04 PM
Hello Everyone,

Just thought I ask: I want to show my kiddo a real beaver dam (ideally inhabited)... does anyone know where to find one in a reasonable distance to the LM? I am in Coquitlam...

Thanks a bunch....
walks with deer
10-29-2018, 01:08 PM
any where along the pit i am sure.
Cdog
10-29-2018, 03:21 PM
If you have access to a boat or canoe there is a beaver lodge here on the Pitt river: 49.281067, -122.699354.
Salty
10-29-2018, 04:38 PM
If a lodge will cut it all good above if its an actual damn you're looking for as you posted you need a smaller body of water not a river. There's an active one here in Hope I know of if you can't find anything closer its on Union bar road less than a km up from the Coq river. Big swampy area there's over a foot of water held back behind his damn it would show the kiddo what its all about.
jlirot
10-29-2018, 05:56 PM
Hinge Park in Vancouver - near Science World. Walk along False Creek near the lodge and you'll see tons of trees chopped down. We took the Beaver Scouts there last year to see it.
silveragent
10-30-2018, 10:59 AM
Not sure if it is still there but in recent years there was always a beaver dam with active beaver in Jericho Park in Vancouver where they have the Folk Festival.
Would Rather Be Fishing
10-30-2018, 11:26 AM
Hinge Park in Vancouver - near Science World. Walk along False Creek near the lodge and you'll see tons of trees chopped down. We took the Beaver Scouts there last year to see it.
Really? Wow... a beaver in the city...
weatherby_man
10-30-2018, 12:50 PM
Really? Wow... a beaver in the city...

Theres a few roaming around :tongue:.....
David
10-30-2018, 01:42 PM
There was one in Port Moody too in one of the townhome developments near brewery row - just google Beaver Port Moody
Would Rather Be Fishing
10-30-2018, 02:05 PM
There was one in Port Moody too in one of the townhome developments near brewery row - just google Beaver Port Moody

I am afraid of what might come up if I do that :-(
twoSevenO
10-30-2018, 03:40 PM
Vedder river. There is one behind "on the way" store and a better one further up the road behind "Thompson park".

Both are easy to find as there are obvious trails leading to them from the parking lot.

Thompson park is a better one and it's quite close to the road so a younger kid can walk to it easy.
twoSevenO
10-30-2018, 03:41 PM
Forgot to add .... you can see freshly cut trees there all the time, but I have yet to see a beaver during the day in all my years fishing those spots (15+). They are nocturnal so I wouldnt count on seeing one
Beachcomber
10-30-2018, 05:37 PM
Not sure if it is still there but in recent years there was always a beaver dam with active beaver in Jericho Park in Vancouver where they have the Folk Festival.
Yes, there are beavers around there. Last year I saw one on the foreshore of all places and found a dead one on the flats at low tide.
lip_ripper00
10-30-2018, 08:29 PM
Grace Rd Surrey
Would Rather Be Fishing
10-31-2018, 09:03 AM
Thanks everyone for all the tips... will try our luck this weekend...
David
10-31-2018, 10:23 AM
I am afraid of what might come up if I do that :-(

Ok - I laughed.

Here's the City of Port Moody's "Beaver Information" page:
http://www.portmoody.ca/index.aspx?page=1735

And yes, because of all the hipsters living there Port Moody now has a "beaver management plan" since one of the kits died, so we can all co-exist peacefully in a beaver paradise.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2018/02/13/port-moody-beavers/