Daisy Lake, also referred to as Daisy Lake Reservoir, is a reservoir on the

Cheakamus River The Cheakamus River (pron. CHEEK-a-mus) is a tributary of the Squamish River, beginning on the west slopes of Outlier Peak in Garibaldi Provincial Park upstream from Cheakamus Lake on the southeastern outskirts of the resort area of Whistler. T ...

in the Sea to Sky Corridor of southwestern

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, just south of the Resort Municipality of Whistler and immediately north of the abandoned townsite of

Garibaldi Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi ( , ;In his native Ligurian language, he is known as ''Gioxeppe Gaibado''. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as ''Jousé'' or ''Josep''. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patr ...

(which until 1932 had been also named Daisy Lake).

Daisy Lake Dam Daisy, Daisies or DAISY may refer to: Plants * ''Bellis perennis'', the common daisy, lawn daisy or English daisy, a European species Other plants known as daisy * Asteraceae, daisy family ** ''Euryops chrysanthemoides'', African bush daisy ** '' ...

was built in 1957 with the reservoir created merging the former natural Daisy Lake and another named Shadow Lake. The reservoir supplies the 158MW

Cheakamus Generating Station Cheakamus is an anglicization of Chiyakmesh, the Skwxw7mesh language name for one of their villages, now located on Cheakamus Indian Reserve No. 11. Cheakamus may also refer to: *Cheakamus River * Cheakamus Lake *Cheakamus Powerhouse, on the Squ ...

on the

Squamish River The Squamish River is a short but very large river in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its drainage basin is in size. The total length of the Squamish River is approximately . Course The Squamish River drains a complex of basins in the ...

via an 11 km tunnel bored beneath the mountain range dividing the two rivers.https://www.bchydro.com/content/dam/hydro/medialib/internet/documents/rev_reqs_bch/pdf/ippbc_1_081_05_01_att1_pdf.pdf There is a BC Hydro-operated recreation area just above the dam, and public campgrounds and picnic tables at

Brandywine Falls Provincial Park Brandywine Falls Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located adjacent to BC Highway 99 between Garibaldi and Whistler, British Columbia. It is managed by Sea to Sky Parks for BC Parks. Falls The falls are located ...

, which is near the head of the lake. The upper reaches of the lake are visible from viewing platform on the north side of the falls and also from points along the hiking trails lining the cliff edge above the Cheakamus River north and south of the falls. The northern, western and southwestern sides of Daisy Lake are influenced by lava flows composing the

Cheakamus Valley basalts The Cheakamus Valley basalts are a sequence of basaltic lava flows along the Cheakamus River in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. They are part of the Garibaldi section of the Cascade Volcanic Arc and were produced during an episode of volcan ...

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* Reservoirs in British Columbia Sea-to-Sky Corridor New Westminster Land District {{BritishColumbiaCoast-geo-stub