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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.
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.
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.
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] BC Highway 31 skirts the northeast shore.
The mountain range covers 135,952 km² (52,491 sq mi). The range is bounded by the Rocky Mountain Trench on the east, and the Kootenai River on the south; their western boundary is the edge of the Interior Plateau .
In 1883, the Gustavus Blin Wright syndicate was awarded a contract (in return for a 24,000-hectare (60,000-acre) land grant) to build a 4-metre (12 ft) wide and 69-kilometre (43 mi) long wagon road from Sicamous on Shuswap Lake, via the four lakes, to Big Eddy on the Columbia River. Begun immediately, the work was completed in October 1884.
From Salmo, Highway 6 goes north for 10 km (6 mi), continuing to follow the Salmo River valley to the town of Ymir. Then it continues north for 34 km (21 mi) passing through the communities of Porto Rico and Hall Siding, to the city of Nelson, just south of which (10 km) access to the Whitewater Ski Resort is located.
The Illecillewaet River / ɪ l ə ˈ s ɪ l ə w ə t / is a tributary of the Columbia River located in British Columbia, Canada.Fed by the Illecillewaet Glacier in Glacier National Park, the river flows approximately 62 kilometres (39 mi) to the southwest, [3] where it flows into the north end of Upper Arrow Lake at Revelstoke. [2]