Gwillim Lake Provincial Park

Highway 23 leads southwards to Gwillim Lake Provincial Park (56 km (35 mi.)), a beautiful, deep-blue lake in largely untouched surroundings (splendid view of the bare mountain ridges to the northwest of the lake), and to Tumbler Ridge (105 km (65 mi.)), a new mining town, part of the Northeast Coal Project, and currently home to about 2000 workers and their families. There are sightseeing tours from mid-June to mid-September round the mining areas, and the enormous computerized conveyor systems of Quintette Coal Ltd., plus excursions to Monkman Provincial Park with the impressive 70 m (230 ft) Kinuseo Falls (accessible only on foot or by hydroplane).

Gwillim Lake Provincial Park offers visitors a variety of water sports and a campground.