Carp Lake Provincial Park

After 143 km (90 mi.), at MacLeod Lake, a narrow, winding paved road branches off westwards to Carp Lake Provincial Park on the Nechako Plateau (32 km (20 mi.)). The lake, full of islands, is very popular with anglers and open-air enthusiasts. In the days of Simon Fraser and the North West Company, the major route connecting Fort St James and Fort MacLeod passed through what is now Carp Lake Provincial Park, and parts of this have been retained at the northern and western ends of the lake. As yet unrestored ruins of the historic Fort MacLeod (Fort MacLeod Provincial Historic Park), in 1805 the first of Simon Fraser's trading posts west of the Rockies, are near the present-day settlement of McLeod Lake, but can only be reached on foot.