The Stikine River Provincial Park is a provincial park in
British Columbia
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. The park covers a total area of approximately 217,000
hectare
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s. The main feature of the Stikine River Provincial Park is a portion of the
Stikine River
The Stikine River is a major river in northern British Columbia (BC), Canada and southeastern Alaska in the United States. It drains a large, remote upland area known as the Stikine Country east of the Coast Mountains. Flowing west and south f ...
known as "
The Grand Canyon
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". This portion of the river is approximately eighty kilometers long and runs through a canyon that has been created from the river cutting through the rock that now forms the walls of the "canyon".
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Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park
Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, protecting most of the Spatsizi Plateau, the southeasternmost subplateau of the Stikine Plateau, and the upper reaches of the basin of the Stikine River. ...
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Provincial parks of British Columbia
Stikine Country
Protected areas established in 1987
1987 establishments in British Columbia
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