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E.C. Manning Provincial Park
Friday, June 19th, 2020
TRAIL CONDITIONS REPORT
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Synopsis for June 19th, 2020
Backcountry Camping fees are in affect. The fee for camping in the backcountry
of Manning Park is $5.00 per person, per night. Backcountry camping permits can be
purchased at Discover Camping up to two weeks prior to your visit. This permit is not a
reservation for a specific campsite in a backcountry camp. You must retain your permit
while camping. Day use hiking does not require a permit.
T rails and day-use areas in Manning Park are open for people to enjoy. BC Parks
is asking visitors to be responsible and ensure everyone is following the Public
Health Officer orders and recommendations. Signal your presence on trails and
avoid clustering in day-use areas. Find out more on the next page!
Please be aware that our trails – especially those in the sub-alpine – are
especially vulnerable to erosion from foot traffic. Do not trail braid, use
only designated trails. Another consideration is the abundance of
animals out and about looking for food. Use proper precautions when
hiking and camping in bear and cougar country!
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COVID-19 & BC Parks
H iking a trail and exploring the outdoors benefits our body and mind.
Especially in a pandemic as some of us may be feeling stress from self-
isolation. The novel coronavirus has changed how we can experience the
outdoors. E.C. Manning Park’s vast trail network provides an opportunity for
park visitors to explore the outdoors while also socially distancing, as outlined by Dr.
Bonnie Henry our public health officer. Even with our vast trail network there will be
occasions where it is difficult to keep a 2 metre distance between other park visitors.
With your help we can continue to keep each other safe and our parks open!
• Bring protective gloves to prevent your skin from coming into
contact with surfaces in park facilities
• Bring hand sanitizer to sanitize hands when going in and out of
park facilities and cleaning hands regularly
• Bring your own toilet paper
Stay in your care until you can keep 2 metres apart
Staying Apart Starts in the Parking Lot
Be a Safe Trail User
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Important Considerations
Weather
• Unpredictable weather may occur at anytime of year. Use local Hope and/or
Princeton weather as a source for planning your trip, and prepare accordingly.
Communication
• There is limited cell service in the Park; your phone WILL NOT WORK in most
locations.
Wildlife
• To help prevent conflict with wildlife, and for the respect of other park users, dogs
must be on a leash at all times, and picked up after.
• Please do not feed wildlife as this will habituate animals to human behaviour and
food. This will result in animals aggressively swooping or scurrying for food.
Conservation
• To protect the Park’s ecological values, please stay on trails at all times.
Determine Which Trail to Hike
Trail difficulty is based on the length of the trail section, change in elevation, and trail type
for average park visitor.
Trail type is defined as:
• Type I: 1.5 to 2.5 m wide, paved, crushed gravel, or boardwalk , less that 10% grade
• Type II: 1.5 m wide, gravel surfacing in wet areas, up to 15% grade
• Type III: 0.5 m wide, grade greater that 15%
• Type IV: up to 0.3 m wide, lightly used wilderness trail, tread as worn not grubbed
out, infrequent maintenance
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Trails Conditions Report
Trail
Est.
Distance
One-way
Est.
Time One
-way
Estimated
Elevation
gained
Trail
Type Trail Condition
Beaver Pond
(Maintained by Manning Park resort)
500m 10 min Very Little Type II Trail closed for hazard tree removal
Paintbrush
(Maintained by Manning Park resort)
Closed until Canada Day Weekend
Rein Orchid
(Maintained by Manning Park resort)
600m 15 min Very little Type II Trail cleared of windfall as of June 18,
2020
Rhododendron Flats (Maintained by Manning Park resort)
1 km 20 min 40m Type II Trail cleared of windfall as of June 18,
2020
Strawberry Flats
(from Strawberry
Flats to Gibson Pass
Ski Hill)
(Maintained by Manning Park resort)
4.5 km 2 hrs 125m Type I Trail cleared of windfall as of June 18,
2020
Sumallo Grove
(Maintained by Manning Park resort)
1 km 30 min Very little Type II Trail cleared of windfall as of June 18,
2020
Twenty Minute Lake (Maintained by Manning Park resort)
1 km 20 min 10m Type II Trail cleared of windfall as of June 18,
2020. Wet spots along trail
Little Muddy
(Maintained by Manning Park resort)
5 km 1 hr 100m Type I
Similkameen river has flooded the trail
south of the bridge on the Gibson Pass
road. Trail cleared of windfall as of June
18, 2020
East Similkameen (Maintained by BC PARKS)
4.7 km 2 hrs 75m Type II &
III
Windfall has been cut on first 2km from
Windy Joe trail, windfall and localized
flooding from 2km to Castle Creek. No
bridge at Castle Creek; dur for
replacement this season.
West Similkameen (Maintained by BC PARKS)
2.1 km 1 hr 75m Type II Trail clear of trees as of June 17, 2020
Easy Trails
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Trails Conditions Report
Trail
Est.
Distance
One-way
Est.
Time One
-way
Estimated
Elevation
gained
Trail
Type Trail Condition
Canyon Nature
(Maintained by Manning Park resort)
2 km 45 min 50m Type II Expect windfall on trail
Monument 78
(Maintained by BC PARKS)
12 km 4 hrs 200m Type III
Snow free but expect wet sections and
some windfall. Trail should be cut out
shortly with assistance from the
Backcountry Horsemen
Dry Ridge
(Maintained by Manning Park resort)
.7 km 40 min 75m Type III Expect windfall on trail
Engineers Loop
(Maintained by Manning Park resort)
1 km 15 min 200m Type III Trail cleared of windfall as of June 18,
2020
Heather (From
Blackwall Peak
parking to Buckhorn
Camp
(Maintained by Manning Park resort)
Closed Until Canada Day Weekend to help protect high-
value seasonal bear habitat and reduce trail erosion
Heather (From
Buckhorn Camp to
Kicking horse Camp)
Closed Until Canada Day Weekend to help protect high-
value seasonal bear habitat and reduce trail erosion
Heather (From Kicking
Horse Camp to
Nicomen Camp)
Closed Until Canada Day Weekend to help protect high-
value seasonal bear habitat and reduce trail erosion
Lightening Lake Loop
(Around Lighting Lake)
(Maintained by Manning Park resort)
9 km 3 hrs 200 Type III Windfall on trail
Lightning Lake (To and
around Rainbow
Bridge)
(Maintained by Manning Park resort)
4.5 km 2 hrs 10m Type II Windfall on trail
Lightning Lake (Flash
Lake Loop) 3.5 km 1.5 hrs Very Little Type III
Snow and windfall free on North side of
Flash Lake, expect windfall and flooded
sections on south side of lake.
Lightning Lake (From
Lightning Lake to
Flash Lake and Strike
Camp)
2 km 30 min 31 Type III Trail clear of trees as of June 17, 2020.
Camp has been cleaned.
Moderate Trails
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Trails Conditions Report
Trail
Est.
Distance
One-way
Est.
Time One
-way
Estimated
Elevation
gained
Trail
Type Trail Condition
Lightning Lake (Strike
Camp to Thunder Lake) (Maintained by BC PARKS)
3 km 1 hr 30m Type III Trail clear of trees as of June 17, 2020.
Expect some brushy sections
North Gibson
(Maintained by Manning Park resort)
3.5 km 1.5 hrs 90m Type III Trail cleared of windfall as of June 18,
2020
South Gibson (Maintained by
Manning Park resort) 3.5 km 1.5 hrs 90m Type II
Trail cleared of windfall as of June 18,
2020
Three Falls
(Maintained by BC PARKS)
9 km
(Return) 2-3 hrs
160m
(one-way) Type III Expect windfall on trail
Moderate Trails
Difficult Trails
Trail
Est.
Distance
One-way
Est.
Time One
-way
Estimated
Elevation
gained
Trail
Type Trail Condition
Bonnevier (From
Eastgate Portal—the
Bear to Heather Trail)
(Maintained by BC PARKS)
Closed Until Canada Day Weekend to help protect high-
value seasonal bear habitat and reduce trail erosion
Bonnevier—Upper
East Gate Bypass
(Maintained by BC PARKS)
Closed Until Canada Day Weekend to help protect high-
value seasonal bear habitat and reduce trail erosion
Dewdney (from
Casacade Parking to
Whipsaw FSR)
36 km 10 hrs 1131m Type III Majority of trees have been removed.
Expect some large trees on trail.
Grainger Creek (from
Hope Pass Trail to
Nicomen Lake)
9 km 3 hrs 952m Type III Expect windfall and lingering patches of
snow.
Hope Pass (From
Cayuse Flats to
Whipsaw FSR)
(Maintained by BC PARKS)
24 km 7 hrs 1000m Type III Expect windfall and lingering patches of
snow
Windy Joe (From West
Similkameen)
(Maintained by BC PARKS)
5.5 km 2 hrs 525m Type II Trail clear of trees as of June 17, 2020.
Expect minor wet sections
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Difficult Trails
Trail
Est.
Distance
One-way
Est.
Time One
-way
Estimated
Elevation
gained
Trail
Type Trail Condition
Mt. Frosty (From
Lightning Lake Day
Use)
(Maintained by BC PARKS)
10.5 km 3.5 hrs 1150m Type III
Trail cleared and snow-free to 4km.
Expect windfall and snow patches past
4km
Mt. Frosty (From
Windy Joe Trail to
Summit)
(Maintained by BC PARKS)
7 km 3 hrs 854m Type III
Expect snow near upper end of trail and
heavy windfall from the junction of Windy
Joe. Rangers are working to clear
windfall over the coming 2 weeks.
Memaloose Trail
(From Highway 3 to
Poland Lake)
9 km 3 hrs 427m Type IV Expect snow and windfall.
Mount Outram (From
Westgate — The
Marmot)
(Maintained by BC PARKS to 2km, Rec
Sites and Trails thereafter)
10 km 3.5 hrs 1699m Type IV Expect snow and windfall
Monument 83
(Maintained by BC PARKS)
16 km 7 hrs 859m Type II
Expect windfall and snow on upper
sections. Rangers and BC Wildfire
Service working to cut windfall over the
next two weeks.
Nicomen Lake (From
Nicomen Lake to Hope
Pass Trail)
(Maintained by BC PARKS)
7.5 km 2.5 hrs 31m Type IV Expect snow and a few windfall
Pacific Crest (From
Windy Joe Trail to
Border)
(Maintained by BC PARKS)
8 km 2.5 hrs 450m Type III Snow free but expect a few windfall
Poland Lake (From
Strawberry Flats) (Maintained by MANNING PARK
8 km 4 hrs 665m Type II Expect snow patches and windfall on trial
Skagit Bluffs (From
Cayuse Flats to
Cascade Parking) (Maintained by BC PARKS)
5.6 km 2.5 hrs 225m Type III
Trail clear of trees as of May 8, 2020.
New bridges over wet sections and brush
cut last season
Skagit River (in Skagit
Valley Provincial
Park)
(Maintained by BC PARKS—South
Coast Region)
16 km 4 hrs Type III
CLOSED: Trail was burnt in 2018 causing
extensive erosion and hazard tree issues.
Due to be repaired this season
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Trails Conditions Report
Difficult Trails
Trail
Est.
Distance
One-way
Est.
Time One
-way
Estimated
Elevation
gained
Trail
Type Trail Condition
Skyline (From
Lightning Lake to
Strawberry Flats)
16.6 km 5 hrs 775m Type III Windfall cut to 2km from Lightning Lake
trail, expect windfall and snow thereafter
Skyline II (From
Despair Pass to
Mowich Camp)
12.5 km 3 hrs 469m Type III
& IV Expect snow and windfall
Silverdaisy Mountain
(crown Land into
Skagit Valley
Provincial Park)
10 km 2.5 hrs Type IV Unknown
Warburton Loop (To
and from the Dewdney
Trail)
(Maintained by BC PARKS)
7 km 2 hrs 280m Type IV Expect snow and windfall
Whatcom (To and from
the Dewdney Trail)(Maintained by BC PARKS)
9.5 km 4 hrs 1081m Type IV Expect windfall and snow on upper
sections
Acknowledgements
As the 2020 Summer season in Manning Park starts we want to thank and acknowledge
all the volunteers and crews who help clear and brush the trails!