Rest rv stop at Cole road is bad too. Forget about a tourist pulling in there with a big rv. No room.

After a long day on the road Saturday and heading back home to Chilliwack I needed a pit stop at Cole rd. What a sad state of affairs. Really sad that tourists on the road are welcomed by this kind of crap when simply trying to find a place to REST or rest their bladders while on the road.
We have had to stop at Bradner before as well, and I agree Its even worse for those travelling west in need of a facility.

Ya bradner is extra nasty.

I do the plumbing maintenance for bradner and cole road rest stops.      When I go to brander I’m supposed to get security.   Cole road isn’t that bad.   Bradner has lots going on.   From the trails behind it that I won’t talk about.  (Just don’t walk in the trees) trust me.    It has the heads that live there and people working out of it.      It’s messed up.  But word on the street is it’s getting shut down !!!    Way to much crime. And garbage.      But back to Squamish vally road I just got home. And I can report no abandoned camps.  Other than a First Nation log salvage camp at Km 40 on G main.    It’s a mess looks like a grizzly went through it garbage thrown around.  Gas and oil cans everywhere.    Unless it wasn’t the bears that made the mess !!!!!!

Irony is where I live is surrounded by new housing developments. I can look out my front window and see 3 multi story towers close to finished. Below them is a 2 level luxury complex... beautiful homes with large balconies. It's all condos. Condo towers are sprouting like mushrooms all over town. The free market doesn't support the down and out.  Affordable rental housing is something they buy to tear down. So the down and out have to camp out in the cold. There but for the grace of good luck go you and I.

I think people need to talk to their Local government and MLAs to get more affordable rental housing zoning and construction. 

Rest rv stop at Cole road is bad too. Forget about a tourist pulling in there with a big rv. No room.

sold

They are having a good season, the Cup is ours.

What cup are you talking about Chris ? Certainly not the Stanley Cup . Perhaps a Participation Cup

I wish more anglers had your philosophy and I was happy that most people on the Squamish system seem to as well. I understand that negotiations re: aboriginal title over the Squamish Valley will start soon. Ignoring the signs may not be possible for much longer.

People have every right to ignore those signs.  Leaving garbage behind is another matter entirely.  My philosophy is to leave it better then you found it. 

The "residents" at Bradner rest stop are being evicted: https://globalnews.ca/news/10375845/abbotsford-encampment-highway-1-rest-stop/

The discussion has taken the usual turn. The Squamish Chief article didn't mention homeless people as part of the problem. When I worked in Maple Ridge there was a similar problem up the Stave Lake Road every spring and summer mostly due to yahoos who camp in numbers for party time and make a big mess. It was all but uncontrollable and had nothing to do with homeless people. The LM didn't have that problem back 25+ years ago.

No one seemed to notice that the person interviewed in the Chief article specifically said anglers are not the problem but part of the solution... sort of missed that as well. I think the situation up there puts the No Trespass sign posted by the Squamish Nation in a different light.