Adams Lake Provincial Park
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Adams Lake Provincial Park
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 Adams Lake |
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| location | British Columbia (Canada) | |
| surface | 100 ha | |
| WDPA ID | 65082 | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 59 ′ N , 119 ° 44 ′ W | |
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| Setup date | January 7, 1988 | |
| administration | BC parks | |
The Adams Lake Provincial Park is a 100 hectare Provincial Park in the Canadian province of British Columbia . The park is located on the Interior Plateau , 85 km northeast of Kamloops and 65 km northwest of Salmon Arm and belongs to the Thompson-Nicola Regional District .
Since there is also an Adams Lake Marine Provincial Park with the parts Poplar Point Site, Refuge Bay Site and Spillman Beach Site at Adams Lake , the "normal" park is regularly also Adams Lake (Bush Creek Site) Provincial Park or Adams Lake Provincial Park (Bush Creek Site) called.
investment
The park is located on the southwestern shore of Adams Lake and is mainly accessed by an access road from the south that branches off from Highway 1 , the Trans-Canada Highway , between Shuswap Lake and Little Shuswap Lake .
The park is determined by its location between the lake and the surrounding mountains, which are part of the Monashee Mountains . It covers an area of 61 hectares of land and 39 hectares of banks and lakes.
The park is an IUCN Category II ( National Park ) protected area . According to the legal basis for parks in British Columbia, the Protected Areas of British Columbia Act [SBC 2000] Chapter 17, it is a Class A park .
history
The park was established in 1988. However, as with almost all provincial parks in British Columbia, this one too, long before the area was settled by immigrants or became part of a park, it was the settlement and / or hunting / fishing area of various tribes of the First Nations , here mainly by the people the Secwepemc , was. In addition to some so-called "pithouses" (a form of dwellings in the ground), several other archaeological sites in the park testify to this historical use / settlement by the First Nations.
Flora and fauna
Within the British Columbia ecosystem, the park area is assigned to the Moist Wet Subzone within the Interior Douglas Fir Zone (IDFmw2). These biogeoclimatic zones are characterized by the same climate and the same or similar biological and geological conditions. This results in a very similar population of plants and animals in the respective zones.
After former forestry use there is only a secondary forest with Douglas firs , giant arborvitae , paper birch and the western balsam poplar .
Neighboring parks
There are other provincial parks near this park. To the north of the park, the parts of the Adams Lake Marine Provincial Park are distributed around the lake . Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park is crossed by the access road to the south .
activities
The park does not have a well-developed tourist infrastructure. The park has 31, non-reservable, parking spaces for campers and tents and has basic sanitary facilities.
See also
Web links
- Adams Lake Provincial Park . In: BC Geographical Names (English)
- Adams Lake Provincial Park . In: English language website of the park at BC Parks
- Information to the park on britishcolumbia.com (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Database on Protected Areas - Adams Lake Park-Bush Creek Site (English)
- ↑ Management Direction Statement Adams Lake Provincial Park - Bush Creek Site. (PDF; 565.13 kB) British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, March 2003, accessed on March 11, 2016 (English).
- ^ Ecosystems of British Columbia. (PDF; 10.31 MB) British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, February 1991, accessed on March 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Biogeoclimatic Zones of British Columbia. British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, accessed April 4, 2016 .