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Mission once billed itself as Home of the Big Red Strawberry, and the habit never left. When the stands open on the flats, where to drive, and how to be a good customer at the gate.
North of town the valley opens into hydro country: the old powerhouse at Stave Falls, Hayward Lake below the dam, and Stave Lake stretching twenty kilometres between forested slopes. A local's guide to Mission's backyard.
The old town below the hill is one of the Fraser Valley's oldest main streets, and it gives nothing to people who do not stop. The station, the storefronts, the museum and the river, in the order I walk them.
Mission is not one town but six: the old town on the flats, two hillside neighborhoods, the river benches at Steelhead, the hydro country up the Stave, and farm country out at Durieu. A practical tour of how the District is laid out, from the editor who has walked all of it.
Tips and corrections
Somewhere I missed, or something I got wrong?
I read everything that comes in. If a place has closed, changed hands, or is simply better than I gave it credit for, tell me and I'll go back and eat there again.