Blue Mountain - Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area

Beautiful area and trails, hard to believe it's just outside the city. We started with a planned trip around Charlie's lake loop, meeting another hiker he told us the rest of the loop was completely ice and we should probably go a different way. So we took Mike's trail. The trails are barely marked so 100% you need a GPS. We got lost and then found a unknown trail that wasn't on the GPS that was marked with ribbon. Followed it and found Fox lake loop. And made our way back with the GPS.
Key points. All the trails were very icy this time of year, use a GPS, go early in the day incase you get lost.
The trails involved lots of obstacles to get over, as well as climbing sometimes. Usually just jumping over rocks and tree branches.
Really excited to go back!

Great place for a hike! Paths are on Google so you can still find your way out if you wander off paths.

Absolutely beautiful place to hike. I have had the pleasure of covering every trail that is mapped as well as a few that are not. Every occasion has been a gift. Love this place!!!

The area is beautiful and great for exploring but the trails are poorly marked and poorly maintained (as in, there's little bush clearing and there are many offshoots that go nowhere). The map is also fairly unrepresentative of the actual trail. I found the area to be lovely and fun, but it's definitely not accessible to people with mobility issues.