"Wells Gray covers an area of some 5,400km², and is the
fourth-largest of BC’s provincial parks. It is nearly the same size
as Banff National Park, and larger than Yoho, Kootenay, Glacier, Mt
Revelstoke and Pacific Rim National Parks all put together.
Most of Wells Gray
Country lies within the boundary of Wells Gray Provincial Park, a
vast wilderness preserving pristine forests, high mountains, roaring
rivers, big lakes, and the plants and wildlife which live among
them."
A Day Trip might include:
Spahats Falls Look-out (10.2KM)
- Spahats Falls is 75 m tall.
- Spahats Creek Canyon dates from the end of
the last Ice Age, about 11,000 years ago.
Dawson Falls (40km)
- The Murtle River rushes over a ledge of
exposed lava, 90 m wide.
- The row of basaltic columns opposite the
viewpoint and just upstream from the brink resulted from a
single lava flow about 200,000 years ago.
Murtle River Bridge - "the Mushbowl" (41.2km)
- At the Mushbowl, the Murtle
River drops 4.5m in a cascade split by a central rock.
- The name "Mushbowl" was bestowed on
this canyon prior to 1940 and is a good description of the
water's action.
Helmcken Falls (42.2km)
- This is the best known of the many waterfalls
in Wells Gray Park and considered by many to be among the most
impressive in North America.
- Here the Murtle River plunges 141m into
Helmcken Canyon.
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