Lillooet: Fountain Creek 8 - Pavilion - Clinton Road - Highway 99
Fountain Creek is best known within British Columbia for its rugged roadside setting on Highway 99 near Lillooet. At this point, the highway follows the dry, steep-sided Fraser River corridor, where cut rock slopes and sharply rising terrain shape one of the province’s more remote road landscapes. Pavilion–Clinton Road joins Highway 99 in this area, linking the corridor with the community of Clinton. Highway 99 runs south through Lillooet towards Pemberton and Whistler, and north-east to Cache Creek. Lillooet was an important supply centre during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858, while the wider area forms part of the traditional territory of the St’át’imc Nation.
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Few towns in British Columbia have a history as closely tied to the Fraser Canyon gold rush as Lillooet. Set on the Fraser River near its meeting with the Seton River, the town developed as an important supply point during the 19th-century rushes that drew prospectors north toward the Cariboo. Lillooet became known as Mile 0 of the Cariboo Wagon Road, a route that carried people and goods into the interior. The area is within the traditional territory of the St’át’imc Nation, whose communities remain central to the region’s identity. Browse additional webcams from the Fraser Canyon to extend your view of British Columbia’s interior.
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