Williams Lake (pop. 12,500; 586 m / 1923 ft) lies in the center of the Cariboo region. As well as the timber industry, cattle-rearing and mining of copper molybdenum, tourism - with the attractions of fishing and hunting for wild animals - plays an ever more important role.
In the vicinity of Williams Lake can be found numerous traces of the
gold-rush period and the Williams Lake Museum at 1148 Broadway provides information about this. A special attraction is a small reactivated gold-mine.
Each year, on the first week-end in July, one of Canada's larger rodeos, the Williams Lake Stampede, takes place here.
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