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This cache promotes active living and environmentally friendly
geocaching. While here take a lunch and enjoy the veiw at the cache
site Picnic table enjoy the trails of this beautiful park.
This cache is hidden in a BC Park. BC Parks supports
geocaching!
Here is a link to the BC Parks geocaching policies,
please familiarize yourself with them. Through cooperation
with
BC Parks, we can keep geocaching a fun and supported activity
in
BC's Provincial Parks
In these caches, you'll find some ProjectBlueSky geocoins
for
the first finders. Please only take one... if you have one
from
another cache, please leave them for other people. There are
also
some other pins and swag from BC Parks, BCGA and Project Blue
Sky.
Park Info
Ten Mile Lake is a very popular recreational
destination for local residents and visitors. It offers a large
picnic area, three sandy beaches, a boat launch, and great fishing
not to mention attractive, treed campsites, showers and flush
toilets. A 2-km nature trail to a large beaver pond, through forest
and along an abandoned rail road is very rewarding to hike. In the
winter the park's trails are transformed into approximately 10 km
of cross country ski trails.
Location
Approximately 12 km north of Quesnel on Highway
#97.
Nature & Culture
- History - Ten Mile Lake Park was established
in 1962 as a recreational destination for residents of Quesnel, as
well as travellers on the Cariboo Highway. The name of the park
comes from the milepost on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway that
stood here in the early 1900s. There is still evidence of the
abandoned rail grade in the park; the tracks had to be relocated
because of difficulties in crossing the Cottonwood River north of
the park.
- Cultural Heritage - The city of Quesnel was
established as a supply centre during the Cariboo Gold Rush of the
1860's. It was originally much smaller than nearby Barkerville,
which is now preserved as a
Historic Town.
- Conservation - Ten Mile Lake Provincial Park
is situated within the Fraser Basin, an irregular shaped depression
of gently rolling hills and shallow lakes covering much of North
Central BC The park lies in a transition area between the wetter
Quesnel Highlands to the east, and the dry Chilcotin Plateau to the
west, leading to a wide diversity of plant species. You can find
white spruce, Douglas-fir, trembling aspen and lodgepole pine,
while the forest floor is home to shrubs like red osier dogwood and
saskatoon. Flowers, trees and shrubs are part of the park's natural
heritage, please don't damage or remove them.
- Wildlife - Walk the Beaver Pond trail and view
a beaver lodge and series of beaver dams. Ducks Unlimited has
placed waterfowl nesting boxes and platforms around the beaver
pond
Park Size: 260 hectares
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