Nairn Falls Provincial Park ( Ucwalmícwts: Skweskwistqw7am, ) is a

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located on the

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adjacent to

British Columbia Highway 99 Highway 99 is a provincial highway in British Columbia that serves Greater Vancouver and the Squamish–Lillooet corridor over a length of . It is a major north–south artery within Vancouver and connects the city to several suburbs as well ...

and the

Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN i ...

line just south of Pemberton and less than twenty minutes north of the resort town of Whistler. The 170

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park was established in 1966, shortly after the highway's opening, to protect and enhance visitor access to Nairn Falls.

Nairn Falls

Nairn Falls is a tiered

waterfall A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in several wa ...

connected by a small

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which throttles the flow of the

just before its accession to the lowlands of the Pemberton Valley and its confluence with the

Lillooet River The Lillooet River is a major river of the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia. It begins at Silt Lake, on the southern edge of the Lillooet Crown Icecap about 80 kilometres northwest of Pemberton and about 85 kilometres northwest of W ...

just above that river's estuary into

Lillooet Lake Lillooet Lake is a lake in British Columbia, Canada about 25 km in length and about 33.5 square kilometres (22 mi²) in area. It is about 95 km downstream from the source of the Lillooet River, which resumes its course after leavi ...

. The waterfall measures tall and has an average width of .

Facilities

The park's campground, located in forest land near the falls, has 94 vehicle-accessible sites and is open from May to October.

References

External links

BC Parks Info Site on Nairn FallsYoutube: Nairn Falls by obhol #1Youtube: Nairn Falls by obhol #2Youtube: Narin Falls by wonderSpud #1Youtube: Narin Falls by wonderSpud #2Hike to the Nairn Falls Waterfall
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