*Please use parking coords and trail across the road. If you try take a shortcut, you might get stuck on a bank..🤪 Keep left on trail, towards river. I've uploaded a photo with trail. ☺️
This cache is part of the “GF125 Geocoin Challenge!” Find all 18 caches, fill in the code words on your “passport” and turn it in to the Grand Forks Visitor Centre for a trackable geocoin! Passports are available at the Grand Forks Visitor Centre, or here: https://discovergrandforks.ca/geocoin2022/
Visitor Centre Hours:
Tues to Fri 10 to 4
Sat 10 to 3
Closed all Stats
All caches placed with permission where required.
As always when out in the forests (as some caches will be placed on trails) please watch for wild animals such as Bears, Snakes, and Cougars.
Have fun, and enjoy all the Grand Forks area has to offer! ☺️
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This dam was constructed in 1898. A reservoir was created to the North covering about 750 acres known as Smelter Lake. The dam supplied water and power to the Granby Smelter operations by 1900 as well as power to the city of Grand Forks. By 1906 the area exceeded the available power supply and South Kootenay Power and Light Co. (later known as West Kootenay Power) extended its lines over the hills from its installations on the Kootenay River. Following some "differences of opinions" between the city of GF and WKP the city decided to produse its own power. In 1932 work went forward on the installation of a power plant at Smelter Lake dam at a costt of $45,000. Mother Nature was not always very cooperatrive and there was shortages of water at times causing severe power restrictions. By 1937 the city had again reached an agreement with WKP to supply power. (* Grand Forks, the First 100 Years by Jim and Alice Glanville)
In May 1948 there was a log jam behind the dam, and when they tried to blow it up the dam burst and a huge wall of water rushed into the city flooding it.