Capilano Lake, lake in British Columbia, Canada

Capilano Lake is a drinking water reservoir in British Columbia, located between North Vancouver and West Vancouver and fed by the Capilano River. At its southern end, Cleveland Dam holds back the water and marks the point where the reservoir meets the river below.

Water from the Capilano valley was first piped into Vancouver in 1889 to meet the needs of a growing settlement. Cleveland Dam was built in 1954 to hold a much larger volume of water and make the supply more reliable for the region.

The name Capilano comes from a Squamish word for a small salmon river mouth, recalling the Indigenous presence before the city. The lake appears as fictional Highland Beach, Washington, in The 4400 and as Lake Okobogee in a first-season X-Files episode.

The reservoir itself is closed to the public to protect the water supply, but Cleveland Dam nearby is freely accessible. From the dam you can walk across on foot and look out over the water and the forest on both sides.

In The 4400, Capilano Lake stood in for the fictional town of Highland Beach, Washington. It also appeared as Lake Okobogee in a first-season X-Files episode and in the third-season episode "Quagmire." The reservoir's shoreline and forested setting made it a stand-in for American locations.