Sea-to-Sky: Horseshoe Bay to Squamish

The Sea-to-Sky Highway is British Columbia's famous coastal road, and this is its most dramatic part: Highway 99 cut into the cliffs above Howe Sound, from Horseshoe Bay to Squamish. It sweeps along high above the water past Lions Bay, Porteau Cove and Britannia Beach, with the mountains of the Coast Range across the sound, and ends under the granite face of the Stawamus Chief.

It's driven north from Horseshoe Bay, the way Vancouver drivers set out. Most of it is four lanes, much of it divided by a concrete barrier, so this is a drive for the views and the long, flowing curves rather than tight corners. Squamish to Whistler is its own drive.