Seton Portage Historic Provincial Park

Seton Portage Historic Provincial Park preserves part of the route of British Columbia’s first railway, a 3-kilometre line built in 1861 to carry miners’ goods along the route to the Fraser goldfields when Short Portage was an important link between Anderson and Seton lakes. Because the grade rose only about 15 metres, cars were drawn uphill by horses and sent downhill by gravity. Much of the old roadbed survives in today’s Portage Road, and part of it lies within this tiny forested park at the western end of Seton Portage. Established in 1972, it is the smallest provincial park in British Columbia.

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