Kiskatinaw Provincial Park

Kiskatinaw Provincial Park in British Columbia protects a dramatic horseshoe-shaped meander of the Kiskatinaw River and the original Alaska Highway bridge that crosses it. Established in 1962, the park preserves a rare piece of northern road-building history: a curved, banked wooden trestle bridge built in 1942 after Pearl Harbor as Canada and the United States rushed to construct the highway. Built in just nine months, the 57.9-metre bridge was left behind when a new crossing opened west of it in 1978. As the only surviving curved, banked trestle bridge in Western Canada, it links the park’s forested landscape and modest recreation directly to the highway’s wartime origins.

British Columbia · Canada