Coast Mountains

British  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in Canada, on the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Waddington, 4043 m (13 266 ft)

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Example Sentences

Rocky walls are designed to evoke the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, near Arc’teryx headquarters in Vancouver.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025

The Fraser Canyon, which stretches from B.C.'s high interior plateau through the Coast Mountains to the lower mainland, suffered some of the most severe highway washouts during the storm.

From Reuters • Nov. 19, 2021

At the top, they savored a sunset ceremony where visibility stretched across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, and Mount Rainier shimmered to the south.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2020

Seventy-five miles north of Vancouver, in Canada’s Coast Mountains, the resort — technically two mountains, tethered by a two-mile-long, peak-to-peak gondola — was the host of the 2010 Winter Olympics and hasn’t looked back.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2020

We shall long remember that little, leaping, dancing branch of the Coquille, that runs from the Coast Mountains to the sea.

From Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California by Leighton, Caroline C.