Hazelton Attractions

The fact that there are three Hazeltons - Hazelton, New Hazelton (306 m / 1004 ft) and South Hazelton - is due to a dispute about the station for the Grand Turk Pacific Railway. Nowadays the trains stop at New Hazelton, at the foot of the impressive, partially glaciated Rocher-Déboulé massif. In 1914, when the railway was being built, this was the scene of a spectacular bank holdup, when five of the gang were gunned down and the sixth escaped with the loot of just 1400 dollars.

Hazelton old town is 8 km / 5 mi north of Yellowhead Highway and the railroad, on the north bank of the Bulkley River, near where it flows into the Skeena River.