Pink Mountain, British Columbia

Pink Mountain in northeastern British Columbia is both a small Alaska Highway settlement and a nearby isolated peak rising above the boreal plain, notable for alpine tundra and rare plants. Its name comes from pinkish burnt rock seams. Part of the area is protected in Pink Mountain Provincial Park, created chiefly to preserve a major palaeontological site with large Mesozoic marine fossils, including the largest ichthyosaur ever discovered. The surrounding country is also important habitat for rare arctic butterflies and for British Columbia’s only wild Plains bison herd, descended from animals imported and released in 1971. Older routes such as the 1897 Police Road also crossed this landscape.

British Columbia · Canada