Brandywine Falls Provincial Park, Natural provincial park near Whistler, Canada

Brandywine Falls Provincial Park is a 420-hectare provincial park on Highway 99 between Garibaldi and Whistler. Its 70-metre waterfall drops over a cliff of at least four stacked basaltic lava flows into a rocky basin, with Daisy Lake just downstream on Brandywine Creek.

The park takes its name from two railway surveyors who wagered a bottle of brandy over their different estimates of the waterfall's height. The dark rock walls formed during ancient volcanic activity in the region.

The name Brandywine comes from a wager between surveyors Jack Nelson and Bob Mollison over the falls' height; the closest guess won a bottle of brandy. Around 1900 a railway station and log cabins stood by the falls, and some dilapidated cabins remain beside the trail. The area was a hunting and fishing ground for First Nations long before the park was established in 1973.

The park sits on Highway 99, about 47 km north of Squamish and 18 km south of Whistler. Trails link to the Sea to Sky Trail and viewpoints over the falls and down Brandywine Creek toward Daisy Lake. Swim Lake, in the northeast corner, has a picnic area but no vehicle access. In winter a marked but ungroomed cross-country ski trail is used by thousands of skiers each year.

Multiple lava flows from the late ice age have stacked atop each other to create the layered dark rock walls you see today. These distinct bands of volcanic material tell the story of repeated eruptions that shaped this valley.