Friday: 9/16/ 2022 Boundary Country

 

Provincial Park with forest fire damage

Friday, Sep. 16

Leaving Beaverdell behind, we continue on the Kettle Valley Rail Trail.  We now enter an area called Boundary Country.  Parts of the TCT get very close to the USA border here.  We stopped at the park area shown in the above photo.  It was sad to see all the blackened acres from recent forest fires.  Fortunately, some of the campground area escaped the fire so there were still some nice camping spots.  We were in the area at the very end of the camping season, and I believe the campground was scheduled to close for the winter at the end of the weekend.

 The next place we visited was Midway.  Midway is the zero point of the KVR;  we have been on or near the KVR trail for over 450 kilometers, since we left Hope back in 2018.  But not to worry, because this is also the zero point of another rail trail, The Columbia & Western Rail Trail, which continues east from here.  We will continue on this new rail trail, more or less, until we arrive in Castlegar. Rail trails are ideal for the TCT because the grades are always mild, and they are usually well-kept.   Less adventurous perhaps, than other segments of the TCT in areas, but safer than segments that are routed on major highways.

This is a farming area primarily, the mountains take a step back in this area a bit.  In this area the mountains are called the Monashees, and today we finished the Midway Range of the Monashees.  The southern Monashees  around here are more rounded and not as high as the Northern Monashees in the Kelowna area.  On Sunday, we get to visit the Christina Range of the Monashees.


Amazing  steel artwork on a farmer's gate




Another  forest fire photo




Mile Zero of the KVR



Comments

  1. AudreyJuly 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM

    Yes, remembering this and the museum we toured at the Mile Zero location.

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