Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park

Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park in northern British Columbia’s Stikine region is one of the province’s largest protected areas, created in 1975 to conserve wildlife habitat and a remote alpine landscape. Long before that, it was an important hunting, travel, trade, fishing, and seasonal harvesting area for the Tahltan and other Indigenous peoples, and it preserves village sites, trails, and fur-trade-era locations. Later exploration brought traders, surveyors, prospectors, trappers, and hunting camps. The park and the Gladys Lake Ecological Reserve protect high, cold plateau country and support major wildlife populations, including bears, wolves, moose, mountain goats, Stone’s sheep, and large numbers of woodland caribou.

British Columbia · Canada