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Mount Revelstoke National Park is a national park located adjacent to the city of Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada. The park is relatively small for a national park, covering 260 km 2 (100 sq mi). It is located in the Selkirk Mountains and was founded in 1914.
Highway 23 follows the Trans-Canada east through the city of Revelstoke for 1 km (0.62 mi), finally turning north after leaving Revelstoke. North of Revelstoke, Highway 23 entirely follows the east bank of Revelstoke Lake for 151 km (94 mi), past the old townsite of Mica Creek to its northern terminus at the Mica Dam facility.
Revelstoke Mountain Resort (RMR) is a ski resort on Mount Mackenzie, just outside Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada. It is owned by Northland Properties . Currently, the resort has a 1,710 metres (5,620 ft) vertical drop, the longest vertical descent of any ski resort in North America.
Columbia–Shuswap regional district comprises the regions known as the Shuswap Country, which focuses around Shuswap Lake and lies to the north of the Okanagan region, and the northern part of the Columbia Country, namely the "Big Bend" of the valley of the Columbia River from the Town of Golden to the historic City of Revelstoke, British ...
Trout Lake is a ribbon lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Between the Selkirk Mountains to the west and the Purcell Mountains to the east, the lake is about 23 kilometres (14 mi) long and 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) wide. Lardeau Creek flows into the northern end and Lardeau River flows from the southern end. [1]
By the mid-1890s, a pack train trail ran from Revelstoke to the creek. [26] The S.S. Revelstoke operated the Revelstoke–Downie Creek run from 1902 during the summer months. [2] By 1908, Five-Mile Landing was the departure point, [27] while Downie Creek remained the northern terminus [28] until 1915. [29]
Three Valley Gap is an unincorporated community at the eastern end of Three Valley Lake in the Shuswap Country region of southeastern British Columbia. On BC Highway 1 , the locality is by road about 21 kilometres (13 mi) southwest of Revelstoke , and 51 kilometres (32 mi) northeast of Sicamous .
British Columbia provincial highways The Big Bend Highway is a 305-kilometre (190 mi) former highway in the interior of British Columbia , and was the original alignment of Highway 1 (Hwy 1) which followed the Columbia River between Revelstoke and Golden through the Selkirk Mountains .