Northern British Columbia 2008 Travel Guide

Outdoor Adventure Guide SCENIC One of the wonderful things about northern B.C. is that it offers everyone an entry to profoundly impacting experiences of nature – regardless of fitness, experience, skill level, or access to specialized equipment. The whole family will enjoy moving, memorable, and readily accessible outdoor activities like these: • Watch wildlife. Bears, moose, deer, caribou, foxes, coyotes, mountain goats, Stone’s sheep and more are commonly seen from northern B.C. highways. But some sites offer once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunities. For example, watch bears at close range in Stewart as they feed on spawning salmon, at the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Sanctuary, and from boats around Princess Royal Island – home of the famed Kermodei Bear. Take a north coast boat tour to watch playful orcas, humpback and grey whales, porpoises, seals, sea lions and more. In late summer, see rivers blush red with returning salmon – some swimming many hundreds of kilometers up rivers from the coast to spawn. Watch a diverse array of birds, like thousands of migrating trumpeter swans in Fraser Lake, and more than 150 species of birds at the Delkatla Wildlife Sanctuary in Haida Gwaii. • Monkman Park – J.F. Bergeron, Enviro Foto Watch the northern lights. Think nothing can top a northern B.C. sunset? The mysterious, multi-colored light displays commonly seen in our night skies might change your mind. Explore northern B.C.’s geological history. Hunt for fossils at Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park near Smithers, walk the volcanic landscapes of Nisga’a Memorial Lava beds and Red Mountain. View perfectly preserved dinosaur tracks in sedimentary rock near Hudson’s Hope and Tumbler Ridge. Go rockhounding for agates on Haida Gwaii beaches, rare opals in the Eagle Creek deposit near Burns Lake, jade and peridot near Dease Lake, and pan for gold in Stewart, Taylor and Atlin. Beachcomb, on sandy beaches of Naikoon Provincial Park in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Soak in hotsprings, year round at Liard Provincial Park, Mount Layton near Terrace, and Wewani and Shearwater springs in the Douglas Channel near Kitimat. Swim, in the warm spots of Babine Lake near Granisle, in cherished swimming holes like Flatbed Falls near Tumbler Ridge, and in the unusually warm waters of Boya Lake. Go flight-seeing, for bird’s-eye views of rarely seen landscapes – like the Juneau icefield and remote Atlin Provincial Park. Skate on a frozen lake or one of the free, outdoor rinks found in almost every northern B.C. town. Bundle up and cheer on the dog teams, at international dogsled races held annually in Fort Nelson. www.Norther nBCtourism.com • • • • • • • 84 Norther n British Columbia http://www.oonaretreat.com http://www.oonaretreat.com http://www.northernbctourism.com

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Northern British Columbia 2008 Travel Guide Contents Northern BC Introduction North East - British Columbia North West - British Columbia Northern BC Map - Regional Area Northern BC Golf - Special Feature Haida Gwaii / Queen Charlotte Islands - British Columbia Outdoor Adventure Guide Travel Information - Things You Should Know Advertiser Directory

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