South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park Located in the Thompson Okanagan

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South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park

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South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park is a visually spectacular area with mid elevation grasslands, sub alpine and alpine meadows, alpine lakes and mountain peaks. The park encompasses the complete watersheds of Lizard and Leckie Creeks and significant portions of other large intact watersheds and headwaters. There are broad valleys and ridges with interconnecting trail systems. Over 200 km of trails through broad valleys, alpine meadows and ridges offer an excellent variety of loop trips of varying difficulty and distances for hikers, horse riders and mountain bikers. Visitors to this park will have an outstanding wilderness experience.
Whistler, Lillooet, Pemberton
51.028795
-123.05169
No. Bring your own.
Horseback riding in South Chilcotin Mountains Park can be spectacular, with easy access alpine, high mountain vistas, flower meadows and good wildlife viewing throughout the park. Horse groups should not camp at Spruce Lake North campsite. Cowboy Camp on the Gun Creek Trail is a great location for horse groups. There are companies with permits to operate guided horse trips in the park. Click here for additional information.
This park is open to hunting. Please stay safe. Facilities available: campfires, pit toilets, walk-in/wilderness camping. For more information and important visitors notices visit the BC Parks website .
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This park lies approximately 150 km north of Whistler and 95 km west of Lillooet. Access from Pemberton is via the Hurley Forest Service Road to Gold Bridge (this road climbs steeply to 1,850 metres and can be very rough) or from Lillooet along Carpenter Lake on Hwy 40. To access the Jewel Bridge trail head, take the Slim Creek FSR (about 7 km east of Gold Bridge on Hwy 40), off Hwy 40 and head generally north for approximately 12km to the start of the Gun Creek/Spruce Lake Trail at Jewel Creek. Alternatively, visitors can drive to Gun Lake and access this logging road at the east end of the lake. The park may also be accessed by the southeast and east sides via logging and mining roads. Many of these roads require a four-wheel drive vehicle.

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Linda Buchanan

Camping in S Chilcotin posted on: 02 / 10 / 2019

Yes you can pack in and camp at Spruce Lake - Cowboy Camp. Rustic. As for camping in your rig and doing day rides out NO. We were taken in to another area by a guide outfitter and stayed at his base camp.

Barb Crawford

camping posted on: 01 / 22 / 2019

Are you able to camp in the area and ride out?

Linda Buchanan

Tyaughton Trail, Paradise Trail and Deer Pass Trail posted on: 09 / 09 / 2018

The Tyaughton Trail is for the experienced backcountry rider as it had steep side slopes and can change in wet weather. This trail is 32 km's in length, a 9 hour ride one way with an elevation gain of 2000 feet. The Paradise trail is difficult as you climb from the valley up above tree line. This is 6.5 km approx. 2.5 hour ride one way. The elevation gain is 1900 ft. The views are breathtaking. Deer Pass Trail is a difficult trail. You leave the valley and head up above tree line. This is approximately 10 km's one way to the pass. We didn't make it all the way due to a washout of the trail and is approx 4-4.5 hour ride one way. The elevation gain is 1800 feet. The views are spectacular up here. 360 degrees of mountains all around you.

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