Horseshoe Falls

Horseshoe Falls is a remote waterfall on the Murtle River west of Murtle Lake in Wells Gray Provincial Park, one of seven falls along the river and accessible by foot rather than road. It drops in two stages about 100 metres apart, with a 6-metre upper fall and a broader 10-metre lower fall that gives it its wide appearance. Joseph Hunter first recorded the site in 1874 while surveying for the future Canadian Pacific Railway and named the river and lake after his Scottish birthplace. The falls received their present name in 1914 from surveyor Robert Henry Lee during his mapping of homesteaders' lots along the river.

British Columbia · Canada