On a sunny summer day we hiked half of the Grasslands Community Trail from the top, then we looped back on a Connector Trail above McQueen Creek for an 8.6 km hike. We parked at the trailhead and followed the signed trail past Griffin Lake. After 1 km through the forest, the trail emerges into an open area with several …Continue reading…
Clapperton Hill is the forested ridge-hill that rises above the grasslands in the Lac du Bois Nature Conservancy. In past years I have hiked and snowshoed around the hill, I had climbed to the top area from the southwest, and I have visited a favorite viewpoint on the south shoulder a number of times. On this November day, the plan …Continue reading…
A new feature for KamloopsTrails will be pages with specific trail information, including driving directions, the trailhead(s), trail information, maps, features, images, links, etc. Each of these pages takes time and it will take a couple of weeks to complete pages on all of the local trails. A few are done and will be featured as News Items. When they …Continue reading…
The upper grasslands on the edge of the forest is the north end of the Lac du Bois Conservancy of Canada. it is bordered by Park lands on the east and south and the McQueen Lake Environmental Education Center on the north. Clay Lake and Meadow Pond lie in a grasslands basin surrounded by forest. There are a number of …Continue reading…
For many years we had good access to the Deep Lake area by parking at the end of Ida Lane but two events changed our ability to get to the trailhead to hike in the grasslands and forests. In 1996, the Lac du Bois Grasslands Protected Area added the Deep Lake area to Parks lands and gates were installed …Continue reading…
The Batchelor Range is a chain of rocky hills overlooking the North Thompson River from the Deep Lake area to the edge of the City in the Batchelor Hills. The south end of the Range is accessible from the Lac du Bois Road, but the north end is harder to get to. We can drive on rough backroads to get …Continue reading…
This is one of our best hikes. It is 14 km long, but if you can plan a two-car system and start high, much of the hiking is easy. It starts at the edge of the McQueen Lake property, not far from the Day Center/Smiling Pond. Crossing meadows, mixed forest, ridges, creek gullies, bridges, and tracks, it eventually emerges into …Continue reading…