Cariboo Regional District

Cariboo Regional District has served as a gold-rush frontier within British Columbia since the 1860s. Centred on the interior around Williams Lake and Quesnel, it brings together the open Chilcotin Plateau, ranch country, conifer forest and the waterways of the Fraser River system. Quesnel Lake and the Cariboo Mountains give the east a markedly different character from the drier western plateau. The Cariboo Gold Rush brought prospectors along routes now associated with the Gold Rush Trail, while Barkerville Historic Town preserves the province’s best-known surviving gold-rush settlement. Forestry and cattle ranching remain important to local life across a region of long roads, small communities and distinct seasons. Move on to other webcams in Cariboo Regional District to compare river valleys, plateau country and town settings around central British Columbia.

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