Above picture is from parking waypoint looking North towards the
lake.
This North-South dirt airstrip was built for BC Forests in the
late 1960's to replace their smaller East-West strip.
Crestbrook Forest Products originally owned the property but
needed to expand their staging areas at the Canal Flats mill. Thus
both parties arranged a land swap. That new staging area now runs
parallel to highway
The airfield was approximately 5,500 feet by 200 feet and used
until a paved more modern field was built in Fairmont Hot Springs
in the mid 1980's; at which time it was decommissioned.
While operational Local Private flyers enjoyed using the
airstrip and it was also the emergency landing field for the
Cranbrook Airport to the south.
Picture below is from the beach at the northern most end of the
airstrip's approach with the Dutch Creek Hoodoos near the northern
tip of Columbia Lake.
