Cache Creek Travel Guide

If you turn off Highway 97 about 12km north of Cache Creek at Carquile, the Highway 99 leads to one of the hidden jewels of B.C....Marble Canyon and Pavilion Lake, and the Fountain Gorge of the Fraser River, just north of Lillooet. The 3000 foot high cliff face of Marble Canyon is not unlike that of the Grand Canyon, or Zion in Utah.

Travelling the back roads of the Cache Creek area takes you to the scenic Hat Creek Valley. Turn off the Trans Canada Highway near Ashcroft Manor and head up the Cornwall Mountain Lookout road.

There was a proposal at one time to turn this beautiful valley into an open pit coal mine...the ground beneath contains a coal seam more than 2000' thick. Personally I'm glad it never went through.