Hayward Lake

Hayward Lake is a lake and reservoir on the Stave River in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Situated in the District of Mission around 60 km east of Vancouver, Hayward Lake is shaped by Ruskin Dam, which lies around 3 km upstream from the Stave River's conjunction with the Fraser River at Ruskin, which sits straddling the Mission-Maple Ridge limit. The lake starts at the tailrace from the Stave Falls Dam and is around 7.5 km long and a normal of 0.5 km wide, with a most extreme width of 1.5 km when lengths of little deltas are considered.

In spite of the fact that cleared of flotsam and jetsam since, for a long time Hayward Lake was an overwhelmed timberland brimming with dead trees, which had not been logged when of the immersion of the ravine of the Stave River, which lies today in the lake's profundities behind Ruskin Dam. The first roadbed of the Stave Falls Branch of the British Columbia Electric Railway climbed the gorge dividers, now submerged, however the line was revamped as a component of the development of Ruskin Dam and its track along the west side of the lake is currently a climbing and biking trail.