Camping BC, the Rockies & Yukon by Seagrave Jayne;

Author:Seagrave, Jayne;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heritage House
Published: 2017-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Recreational activities

The park has a lovely quiet beach area where you can swim or fish for rainbow trout and Dolly Varden. A trail leads from the park and through a forest of Douglas fir, redcedar and ponderosa pine along Lockhart Creek. You can catch rainbow trout in the creek. It takes about three hours to hike the trail, which has an elevation gain of 800 metres.

Additional information

Highway 3A from Creston to Kootenay Bay is a lovely drive that takes tourists past small stores, galleries and an amazing circular glass house that a retired funeral director constructed out of 500,000 square embalming-fluid bottles. Definitely the only one like it in Canada, if not the world, the house is 7 kilometres south of the campground. At Kootenay Bay, travellers can take the Kootenay Lake Ferry—the world’s longest free ferry ride—across the lake to Balfour (kootenaylake.bc.ca). If you take the Osprey, you will be able to experience the excellent little café onboard. Be sure you’re hungry when you embark: the breakfast is very good, as is watching the lake go by as you eat. This boat trip offers excellent photography opportunities and is recommended to everyone holidaying in the area. Lockhart Beach is definitely one of the better roadside campgrounds.

MARTHA CREEK

Location

The views from this 71-hectare park, which overlooks the Revelstoke Reservoir, stretch on to the Monashee Mountain Range and provide fantastic photography opportunities. In June, a blanket of colourful wildflowers covers the campground. For these reasons alone, Martha Creek is a delightful place to sojourn and located just 20 kilometres north of Revelstoke on Highway 23. All services are available in Revelstoke.

Facilities

Located on an old river terrace on the western shore of Revelstoke Reservoir, Martha Creek has 46 paved campsites, many with access directly onto the beach, although some are quite close to each other, restricting privacy. There are flush and pit toilets but no sani-station. There is one wheelchair-accessible campsite. Reservations are possible for 37 of the 46 sites.

Recreational activities

A swimming beach is located near the campground, and you can fish in the Revelstoke Reservoir for rainbow and bull trout (there’s a boat launch at the southern end of the park). An enchanting 7-kilometre hiking trail leads walkers through wildflowers, cedar and hemlock and on to flowering meadows and alpine lakes within the Sleeker Mountains. There is a children’s playground and a large grassy field with a volleyball net. The historic town of Revelstoke has been restored over the last few years and is an appealing place for shopping and wandering. In the summertime the bandstand in the town’s plaza has evening entertainment for visitors. I spent a lovely August evening dancing to a local band as the sun went down—just the sort of light exercise needed before retiring to the tent or RV.

Additional information

When staying in this vicinity, you must visit the Revelstoke Dam, one of North America’s largest and most modern hydroelectric developments, located five minutes from Revelstoke on the road to Martha Creek. Mica Dam, two hours north of Revelstoke on Highway 23, is also worth a visit.

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