Keremeos Columns Provincial Park
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Keremeos Columns Provincial Park
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| location | British Columbia (Canada) | |
| surface | 20 ha | |
| WDPA ID | 65244 | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 15 ' N , 119 ° 47' W | |
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| Sea level | from 1340 m to 1420 m | |
| Setup date | July 31, 1931 | |
| administration | BC parks | |
| particularities | Backcountry park | |
The Keremeos Columns Provincial Park is a 20 ha large provincial park in Canada's British Columbia . The park is located about 10 kilometers north-northwest of Keremeos in the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen near British Columbia Highway 3A . The park is a so-called backcountry park , which means that there are no official roads into the park. It is located in a side valley of the Similkameen Valley .
The park is a category III protected area ( natural monument ).
The park is named after the predominantly hexagonal basalt columns that occur here . These solidified lava columns formed more than thirty million years ago as the molten rock slowly cooled. The high cliff with the pillars is outside the boundaries of the park, but can be easily seen from there. The formation is a geological phenomenon similar to that of the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland or the Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming.
Within the ecosystem of British Columbia, which is divided into different biogeoclimatic zones with the Biogeoclimatic Ecological Classification (BEC) Zoning System , the area is assigned to the Interior Douglas-fir Zone . In the park there are mainly Douglas firs and a lot of bitterroot .
history
As with almost all provincial parks in British Columbia also applies to this that he hunting and fishing territory of different strains of long before the area of European immigrants settled or part was a park First Nations that here Lower Similkameen which the Okanagan belong, was .
The park was established on July 31, 1931, making it one of the ten oldest of the Provincial Parks in British Columbia .
Web links
- Keremeos Columns Provincial Park . In: BC Geographical Names (English)
- Keremeos Columns Provincial Park The park's English-language website at BC Parks
- Information to the park on britishcolumbia.com (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Database on Protected Areas - Keremeos Columns Provincial Park (English)
- ↑ Biogeoclimatic Zones of British Columbia. British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations , accessed March 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Keremeos Columns Provincial Park - Purpose Statement and Zoning Plan. (PDF, 80.368 KB) British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks , February 2006, accessed on March 23, 2018 .
- ^ Ecosystems of British Columbia. (PDF, 10.31 MB) British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, February 1991, accessed on March 23, 2018 .