Raspberry Pass is a
mountain pass
A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both Human migration, human a ...
in the
Tahltan Highland of northwestern
British Columbia, Canada.
It is located southeast of
Telegraph Creek between the heads of
Raspberry Creek and Bourgeaux Creek in
Mount Edziza Provincial Park
Mount Edziza Provincial Park is a provincial park in Cassiar Land District of northern British Columbia, Canada. It was established on 27 July 1972 to protect the Mount Edziza volcanic complex and the surrounding Tahltan Highland.
Geography
The p ...
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Raspberry Pass forms a boundary between the
Spectrum Range
The Spectrum Range, formerly called the Spectrum Mountains and the Rainbow Mountains, is a subrange of the Tahltan Highland in the Stikine Country of northwestern British Columbia, 20 km west of the Stewart-Cassiar Highway, south of Mount ...
and the
Mount Edziza area, cutting northwesterly through the middle of the
Mount Edziza volcanic complex.
Raspberry Pass is the namesake of the
Raspberry Formation
The Raspberry Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Miocene age in northwestern British Columbia, Canada.
Naming
The Raspberry Formation takes its name from Raspberry Pass, a mountain pass cutting through the central portion of the Mount Edziz ...
, a
geological formation of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex.
The mountain pass provided a passageway for the
Yukon Telegraph Trail
The Yukon Telegraph Trail, also known simply as the Telegraph Trail, is a historic pathway in the Canadian province of British Columbia that extends from the village of Ashcroft in the south to the community of Atlin in the north. It was used for ...
which was established by the Dominion Government Telegraph Service from 1898 to 1901.
See also
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Destell Pass
References
External links
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Mountain passes of British Columbia
Landforms of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex