Photo: BC Parks Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park
BC Parks inside Kokanee Glacier Parkwhat to expect
Located north of Nelson, beautiful Kokanee Glacier Park offers an excellent backcountry adventure. The park has two glaciers named Kokanee and Woodbury, reaching above 1,800 metres high. The glaciers feed over 30 lakes and are the headwaters of many creeks. Kokanee Lake is 1,200 metres long and 400 metres wide, surrounded by precipitous cliffs and rock slides. Other lakes in the park include Sapphire, Joker, Gibson, Kaslo and Tanal Lakes. They offer good fishing for rainbow and cutthroat trout. With 85 km of well marked trails, this park is appropriate for campers, hikers and climbers with all levels of outdoor experience. Its boundaries encompass 32,035 hectares of some of the most scenic mountain country of southern British Columbia.
Description: BC Parks
the basics
The campsites
Things to do nearby
Within 5 km — trails, viewpoints, beaches, boat launches you can reach without packing up camp.
- Kokanee Lake Boulders
Plus 1 user-tagged viewpoint on OpenStreetMap — visible as pins on the map below.
What's around
Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park plus 1 named place to see and do nearby — trails, beaches, viewpoints, water, and services.
Water + services
- Nearest dump station
- Nearest potable water
what to know
Updated each morning from provincial parks and Environment Canada.
what to bring
This list adapts to Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park. no showers means a travel towel; bear country means bear spray.
If Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park is full
Other places to stay within 25 km.
- Woodbury Cabin
- Kokanee Glacier Cabin
- Kokanee Glacier Cabin LOTTERY
- Silver Spray Cabin
- West Kokanee Cabin (Fudd Hut)
- Fletcher Lake
- Sasquatch Lake
- Six Mile Lakes
Plus 2 user-tagged dispersed sites on OpenStreetMap — often genuine wild-pitches; check access rights before relying on one.