Kleanza Creek Provincial Park

Kleanza Creek Provincial Park in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains preserves more than 269 hectares of forest and steep rock canyons carved by Kleanza Creek, a tributary of the Skeena River. The area also reflects the region’s gold-mining past: its name comes from the Gitxsan word for gold, and placer mining began there in the 1890s before being abandoned because the creek was too deep and carried too much water. Remains of those mines still survive in the canyons. The park is important both for its dramatic landscape and for conservation, protecting Kleanza Creek Canyon and significant salmon spawning habitat along a major fall migration route for pink salmon.

British Columbia · Canada