Gitnadoiks River Provincial Park (formerly Gitnadoix River Recreation Area) is a 58,000 hectare

provincial park Ischigualasto Provincial Park A provincial park (or territorial park) is a park administered by one of the provinces of a country, as opposed to a national park. They are similar to state parks in other countries. They are typically open to the ...

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. It is centred on the

Gitnadoix River The Gitnadoix River is a tributary of the Skeena River in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It originates in the Kitimat Ranges, and flows about north to the Skeena River, about west of Terrace.Length measured using Google Maps path too ...

, a tributary of the

Skeena River The Skeena River is the second-longest river entirely within British Columbia, Canada (after the Fraser River). Since ancient times, the Skeena has been an important transportation artery, particularly for the Tsimshian and the Gitxsan—whose n ...

in Northwestern British Columbia, 50 km west of

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. Within the traditional territory of the

Tsimshian The Tsimshian (; tsi, Ts’msyan or Tsm'syen) are an Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Their communities are mostly in coastal British Columbia in Terrace, British Columbia, Terr ...

people, the park is in a remote, wilderness setting in the

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of the

Coast Mountains The Coast Mountains (french: La chaîne Côtière) are a major mountain range in the Pacific Coast Ranges of western North America, extending from southwestern Yukon through the Alaska Panhandle and virtually all of the Coast of British Columbia ...

and is inaccessible by road.

References

External links

BC Parks - Gitnadoiks River Provincial Park
Skeena Country Provincial parks of British Columbia Kitimat Ranges Year of establishment missing {{BritishColumbia-park-stub