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The list of provincial parks of the Kootenays contains the provincial parks located within this geographic region of the province of British Columbia. It includes parks from the three regional districts of East Kootenay , Central Kootenay and Kootenay Boundary .
Kokanee Creek Provincial Park is a provincial park on the west shore of Kootenay Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Highway 3A bisects the park 19 kilometres (12 mi) east of Nelson. Established as a BC Provincial Park in 1955, it encompasses 260 hectares of sandy beaches, deltas, and coniferous forest. [3] [4]
Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park is one of the oldest provincial parks in British Columbia, established in 1922. The park has an area of 320.35 km 2 (123.69 sq mi) and is located in the Selkirk Mountains in the West Kootenays region of BC. The park has three glaciers (Kokanee, Caribou, and Woodbury) that feed over 30 alpine lakes which are the ...
Kootenay National Park is one of seven contiguous national and provincial parks that form the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site. The Continental Divide is the boundary between Kootenay and Banff National Park , as well as the British Columbia–Alberta provincial border.
Southeast (Columbia River–Kootenay River) Kickininee Provincial Park: PP Okanagan-Similkameen: 48.76 120.5 1970 Southeast (Columbia River–Okanagan River) Kikomun Creek Provincial Park: PP East Kootenay: 682 1,690 1972 Southeast (Columbia River–Kootenay River) Kilbella Estuary Conservancy: C Central Coast: 376 930 2007 North central ...
Syringa Park is a provincial park on the east shore of Lower Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. [1] At the foot of the Norns Range, [2] Tulip Creek passes through the centre, [3] and Syringa Creek is closer to the southeastern boundary. [4] The park is about 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Castlegar via ...
The nearest settlements are Argenta, to the west, and Invermere to the east. The park encompasses several large drainages in their entirety, and contains the headwaters of several other large streams and rivers. On the western side of the park, Hamill, Fry, and Carney Creeks flow into Kootenay Lake and the Kootenay River system.
The Kootenays are more or less defined by the Kootenay Land District, though some variation exists in terms of what areas are or are not a part.The strictest definition of the region is the drainage basin of the lower Kootenay River from its re-entry into Canada near Creston, through to its confluence with the Columbia at Castlegar (illustrated by a, right).