The Monkman Pass Memorial Trail is BC's newest hiking trail (July 2008), and brings together the Peace Regions of Alberta and BC. The Monkman Pass trail goes through some of the most untouched wilderness in the world, passing through the Monkman Provincial Park and ending with a river boat trip down the Herrick river. This trail is now amongst the toughest trails in Canada, and will leave you begging for more.
The trail starts with Kinuseo falls (210 ft), then goes by a series of 10 waterfalls (The Cascades), and on to Monkman Lake. It then continues up onto a sub-alpine plateau know as the Monkman Tarns region. Here there are several peaks that can be scrambled and wide open alpine hiking. This area will blow your mind!
From there, follow down Fontoniko creek past Hobi's Cabin on the Herrick River. The trail passes by Puddle Lakes and a gorge. Several small waterfalls are along this section. The trail then goes back down the other side of the divide. The vegetation starts to change. There are large douglas fir, balsam poplar, devil's club and huge ferns and skunk cabbage. The trail follows a plan that was marked for highway back in 1937/38 and slashes are still visible on the trees.
More information about Monkan Provincial Park can be found here.
Directions:
Travel to Tumbler Ridge. Follow the signs out to Kinuseo Falls and Monkman provincial camp ground. It's about 57 km from town. The drive alone is a trip through history, with over thirty points of interest along the way, including dinosaur sites, short hiking and mountain biking trails, and many historic sites associated with Alex Monkman and his heroic band of pioneers.
The trail head starts at the camp ground and proceeds along the Murray River.
ByPosted By: AFrayn
- Wed Jul 15 14:48:01 EDT 2009
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QuestionGPSJust wanted to let you know there are also GPS coordinates on the BC Provincial Park site under Monkman Memorial Trail.
ByPosted By: dominic
- Sat Dec 13 04:45:21 EST 2008
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QuestionGetting outIs a river boat necessary? could a friend in a fishing boat not make it up from Prince George?? I just moved to PG and don't know the water systems at all but would love to do the hike.
ByPosted By: williamcottrell@hotmail.com
- Sun Oct 19 09:37:24 EDT 2008
Upsidehey everyone will again well we hicked the trail, and wow what a trip it was we had sun the first day for maby four hours before it started raining and it pretty much stayed like that for the rst of the trip of course except in the higher elevations where it snowed. the hike starts at 2900ft climbs for the first two and a half days to 6500ft mainly all on the third day. Then levels off prety much all the way to decent camp which we never found. i dont recmoended the trail in the winter unless you have gps which ive uploaded because to trail in the alpine area is only marked by little rock statues every 100 feet and with snow covering them its very difficult. which was part of the reason for never making it to decent camp we thought on day there we would just put in a tough day and hike from monkman lake to there but were over come by night fall and bad weather so just shy we figured by about 1000ft we decided to go off route and decend in to the tree line at 4500 ft for protection and the meet up with the trail in the morning between decent and balkay horse camp, and again that morning most of the decent was that day to. One of the problems with the trails however aside from pretty step sections, is the last 20km. since its out of the park boundary its never really been developed aside from old blazes on trees from the 40's and pink ribbon from some one more recent, this being said it hasnt been cleared hardly at all theres ALOT of bush wacking and the trail crosses the rivers 6 times where theres no bridge or zip lines. So with snow on the rivers edge we stripped down numerous times and walked through the thigh high water. all and all though the glaciers and year rond snow packs on top were pretty amazing. Definitly recamond you allow more time for the trail though plan to hike for 6 days and get picked up one the 7 day. oh and most the camp grounds were well equiped i marked the ones we stopped at on the gps data. good luck to all who try the trail. and if your wondering how you get out from obis cabin there two ways both cost $1200 dollars, a river boat that takes four hours can pick you up from prince george or The way i did Rob from RIDGE ROTORS in tumbler ridge. can chopper you and your gear out in just 25 mins, and you get to see alot along the way. William cottrell.
ByPosted By: williamcottrell@hotmail.com
- Wed Sep 10 12:43:35 EDT 2008
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Questionmonkman memorial pass trailHi there my names william and im wondering if you have your gps data available for this trip im planning on doing the trail here shortly and would love to have the way points already marked? Thanks a bunch, williamcottrell@hotmail.com
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