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Arrowstone Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Thompson Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located to the northeast of the town of Cache Creek. The park was established by Order-in-Council in 1996 with an area of 6203 hectares. In 2000 its boundaries were slightly reduced, such that its area is now 6175 hectares.
The town lends its name to significant geological features, dating back to the Carboniferous, whose rocks are exposed in the area, Cache Creek terrane and Cache Creek Ocean. The village of Cache Creek is also served by a community television station (run by the Ash-Creek Television Society), CH4472 in the neighbouring town of Ashcroft on VHF ...
Approximately 20 kilometres in length, the stream rises in the Arrowstone Hills to the northeast of the town and runs southwest to its confluence with the Bonaparte at the town of Cache Creek. 50°49′00″N 121°20′00″W / 50.81667°N 121.33333°W / 50.81667; -121
British Columbia Parks and Protected Areas System: Mount Robson Provincial Park. Statistics (February 2020) [1] Designation Number Area Class A Parks 629 10,544,873 Class B Parks 2 3,778 Class C Parks 13 484 Conservancies 156 2,999,899 Ecological Reserves 148 160,293 Protected Areas 84 384,733 Recreation Areas 2 5,929 Total 1,034 14,099,989
The list of provincial parks of the Okanagan contains the provincial parks located within this geographic region of the province of British Columbia. It includes parks from the three regional districts of Central Okanagan , North Okanagan and Okanagan-Similkameen .
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The list of provincial parks of the British Columbia Central Interior contains the provincial parks located within this geographic region of the province of British Columbia. It includes parks from the three regional districts of Bulkley-Nechako, Cariboo, and Fraser-Fort George. These parks are administered by BC Parks under the jurisdiction of ...
The canyon's name comes from the brilliant limestone of its walls. The bedrock is microcrystalline limestone (sedimentary rock) rather than marble (metamorphic rock).The native name of the canyon in the Shuswap language is, when referring to the whole, sxmeltám, possibly referring to "Indian doctors", [2] while the name for the area of Crown and Turquoise Lakes and the provincial campground ...