Cache Creek: Highway 1 at Collins Road, looking east on Highway 1/97
Cache Creek sits in the Bonaparte River valley in British Columbia, Canada, where dry Interior hills narrow around a long-established road junction. Highway 1, the Trans-Canada Highway, meets Highway 97 here, making the community a practical stop between the Thompson region and routes north toward the Cariboo. The settlement developed along travel corridors that served the Cariboo gold rush in the 19th century. Its compact streets, roadside services and homes occupy a valley of sagebrush slopes and open benchlands, markedly different from the coast and wet forests often associated with British Columbia.
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Cache Creek lies beside the Bonaparte River in British Columbia’s Thompson Country, and its setting at the junction of Highways 1 and 97 has made it a long-standing stop on routes through the Interior. Dry grasslands and open hills place the community in one of Canada’s more arid settled regions, far from the coastal rainforest often associated with the province. Nearby Historic Hat Creek Ranch interprets ranching life and travel along the Cariboo Wagon Road, a route linked to the nineteenth-century Cariboo gold rush. Cache Creek also connects the Thompson Valley with the Cariboo Plateau to the north. Explore nearby webcam locations that provide complementary perspectives on Cache Creek and Thompson Country.
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