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Joffre Lakes Provincial Park

Photo by Carsten Ruthemann

Joffre Lakes Provincial Park has excellent hiking, camping, mountaineering, wildlife viewing, and fishing opportunities. The area is known for the magnificent jagged peaks, icefields, cold rushing streams, and turquoise blue lakes. Glacial peaks are visible from an easily accessible viewpoint 500 metres from the parking lot. Heading towards middle and upper Joffre Lakes, the trail becomes more challenging.

BC Parks requires that park users reserve a day-use pass during the summer and winter periods at select parks to help manage visitation levels at popular day use areas. Reservations can be made online only. At Joffre there is no cell-service to make reservations, so please ensure you reserve a spot prior leaving Pemberton or Lillooet.

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Xwísten Experience Tours

Discover one of British Columbia’s most immersive Indigenous cultural experiences. Xwísten Experience Tours offers guided pit house (S7ístken) tours, salmon drying demonstrations, and storytelling rooted in thousands of years of St’át’imc culture and land-based knowledge. Visitors learn directly from community members about traditional food harvesting, sustainable practices, and the living heritage of the Xwísten people.

Traditional Fishing Rock & Archaeological Village Tours and The Bearfoot Grill. Visit the Bridge River Fishing Grounds, the past and current fishing area of the St’át’imc People. Learn about the traditional wind-dried method of preserving the salmon still used by its people today.

Learn more at XwistenTours.ca

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Ntqwixw

Written by Jane Carrico

“For every family in the country – that’s all they use…the salmon…financially, there’s no price you can put on it for you and your family”

Elder Edward Napoleon

“The St’át’imc way of life is inseparably connected to the land. Our people use different locations throughout the territory of rivers, mountains and lakes, planning our trips with the best times to hunt and fish, harvest food and gather medicines. The lessons of living on the land are a large part of the inheritance passed on from St’át’imc elders to our children. As holders of one of the richest fisheries along the Fraser River, the St’át’imc defend and control a rich resource that feeds our people throughout the winter and serves as a valued staple for trade with our neighbouring Nations. The St’át’imc can think of no better place to live.”

Nxekmenlhkálha lti tmícwa, St’át’imc Land Use Plan

“Fishing brings you back in contact with who you are… get back in touch with your identify… your roots… where you come from”

Elder Rose Whitley, 1990
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