Thompson Shuswap Parks and Places

Lily Lake is a wilderness recreation lake in the deep back country forests located southwest of the community of Merritt, British Columbia, Canada. The lake is a remote destination popular for birdwatching, horseback riding, fishing, wilderness camping and canoeing.

Merritt

Nicola Lake provides some of the best lake views while traveling the major highways in the valley. Many visit the lake, every year, for camping, boating, water skiing, canoeing, fishing and sailing.

Highway 5A

Merritt

Whitewood Lake is a very remote recreation lake destination deep in the back country forests located north of Kamloops, British Columbia Canada. The lake is a popular wilderness destination for fishing, camping, canoeing and mountain biking

Jamieson Creek Forest Service Road

Kamloops

Silver Beach Provincial Park is a 130 hectare recreation and activity park located on the north end of Seymour Arm of Shuswap Lake sandwiched in between Dasnier and Bughouse Bays. To the east of the park is the community of Seymour Arm which, at one time in the late 1800s, was once a gold rush town

Squilax Road

Sorrento

Marquart Lake is located east of the community of Merritt, BC, Canada popular for fishing, canoeing and camping when exploring the wilderness regions near Sugarloaf Mountain.

Lundbom Lake Road

Merritt

Face Lake attracts people who enjoy the outdoors while fishing, camping, canoeing, boating, motor biking, snowmobiling and offroading. The lake is also in the vicinity of the Chuwhels Motorcycle Trail and is part of the Logan Lake Snowmobile Trail System.

Face Lake FSR

Logan Lake

The 5100 hectare Tunkwa Provincial Park consists of 3 campgrounds, an extensive trail system and two main lakes - Tunkwa and Leighton Lakes. The park is a summer destination for all who enjoy fishing, hiking, boating, canoeing, atving, motor biking, birdwatching, mountain biking and horseback riding

Tunkwa Lake Road

Logan Lake

Juniper Beach Provincial Park is a small campground park surrounded by a few trees, sagebrush, juniper and pear cactus located on the shores of the mighty Thompson River east of the community of Cache Creek, British Columbia, Canada.

Highway 1

Cache Creek

Helmer Lake is a popular destination for fishing, camping, canoeing, boating and off roading during the spring and summer months. In the winter months the lake is one of the trailhead parking lots leading into the Swakum Mountain Snowmobile Trails.

Merritt

McArthur Island Park rests on the Thompson River. A location providing great river views for many who enjoy cycling, lawn bowling, golfing, sightseeing, jogging, biking, skateboarding, tennis, walking, birding, baseball, frisbee, football, picnics, etc.

12th Street

Kamloops

Haig Brown Provincial Park is a 1076 hectare park established in 1977 to protect the salmon spawning beds located on the Adams River north of the community of Chase, BC and west of the community of Sorrento, BC. The river flows 11 kilometres down the centre of the elongated park while resting

Chase

Herald Provincial Park,established in 1975, is a 79 hectare activity park is located on the Salmon Arm of Shuswap Lake west of the community of Sicamous, BC and north of the community of Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada. In the park Reinecker Creek empties into Shuswap Lake and, nearby, Bastion

Sunnybrae Canoe Point Road

Sicamous

The Heritage Place / Legacy Park walking path leads to such exhibits as a pioneer cabin, a settler building, a log cabin, a railway station and a pit house. The first European pioneers to settle in the Ashcroft area were J.C. Barnes and F.W. Brink in around the year of 1858. Prior to that...

Railway Avenue

Ashcroft

Shuswap Lake is the main waterway destination located in the Thompson-Shuswap region of British Columbia, Canada for recreation and activity during the sunshine months. The main communities on the lake are Salmon Arm and Sicamous.

Fishing, canoeing, boating, camping, horseback riding, birdwatching, motor biking, hiking, atving, cross country skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling are some of the activities most enjoyed in the area.

Tunkwa Lake Road

Logan Lake