Nisga'a Memorial Lava Bed Provincial Park

Nisga'a Memorial Lava Bed Provincial Park in northwestern British Columbia preserves the site of what is believed to be Canada’s most recent volcanic eruption, a disaster around 1700 from Tseax Cone that killed an estimated 2,000 people and destroyed two Nisga'a villages, Wii Lax K'abit and Lax Ksiluux. In the valleys of Crater Creek, the Tseax River, and the Nass River, the lava dammed the Nass, buried local drainages, and left cinder cones, lava tubes, caves, lava-dammed lakes, waterfalls, and other volcanic features. Established in 1992 and expanded in 1995, it was included in the Nisga'a Treaty in 2000 and became British Columbia’s first jointly managed provincial park with a First Nation.

British Columbia · Canada