Wells Gray Provincial Park is a large wilderness park located in British Columbia’s central Cariboo North Thompson regions. The park, which comprises most of the Cariboo Mountains, covers over 5,000 square kilometres and is home to some 219 bird species and more than 50 mammal species. Other than its alpine regions, the park is densely forested with conifers and dotted by alpine meadows.
The southern, and most accessible, part of the park contain...
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Wells Gray Provincial Park is a large wilderness park located in British Columbia’s central Cariboo North Thompson regions. The park, which comprises most of the Cariboo Mountains, covers over 5,000 square kilometres and is home to some 219 bird species and more than 50 mammal species. Other than its alpine regions, the park is densely forested with conifers and dotted by alpine meadows.
The southern, and most accessible, part of the park contains numerous small volcanoes and extensive lava flows of the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field. It was then heavily glaciated during the last ice age. Those forces combined to create rugged canyon-valleys cut by impressive waterfalls. On its western flank are the large freshwater fjords of the eastern Cariboo Plateau, the largest being Quesnel Lake. The park's northeastern flank is the main spine of the Cariboo Mountains and is the source of several of the larger upper tributaries of the Fraser River entering it in the Robson Valley. On its...
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