Dawson Falls

Dawson Falls, one of seven waterfalls on the Murtle River in Wells Gray Provincial Park, was named in 1913 by surveyor Robert Henry Lee for George Herbert Dawson, British Columbia’s Surveyor-General. Lee and his crew camped nearby in 1913 and 1914 while surveying homesteaders’ lots, and from here Lee discovered Helmcken Falls on July 24, 1913. The falls descend over lava flows laid down about 200,000 years ago, above older sand and gravel from a river that predated the eruption. About 600 metres downstream, The Mushbowl marks another drop in the river, shaped by resistant Cambrian rock and known for a small cave worn into the cliff by swirling water.

British Columbia · Canada