Pitt Lake is a vast, wild, and strikingly beautiful body of water located near Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, just a short distance from downtown Vancouver. Renowned as the largest tidal freshwater lake in the world, Pitt Lake covers approximately 7,700 hectares and sits at an elevation of roughly 50 meters above sea level. The lake is fed primarily by the Pitt River and numerous tributary streams, with much of the water originating from snowmelt and glacial runoff — giving the lake and its connected waterways their characteristic brilliant shades of blue and turquoise produced by glacial rock flour. The lake reaches a maximum depth of 143 meters, with a mean depth of around 45 meters, making it an exceptionally deep system with dramatic underwater topography. Steep cliffs plunge directly into the water along much of the shoreline, while shallow deltas form at the mouths of incoming streams. Nearly surrounded by public lands — including Golden Ears Provincial Park on the eastern shore and Pinecone Burke Provincial Park to the west — Pitt Lake has minimal road access and retains a genuine wilderness character that sets it apart from most fisheries in the Lower Mainland.