Wapiti Pass is a mountain pass in the
Northern Rocky Mountains of
British Columbia,
Canada. It lies immediately east of
Wapiti Lake Provincial Park
Wapiti Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is south of Tumbler Ridge, at the headwaters of Wapiti River, including its watershed from the Wapiti Pass to Wapiti Lake in the Canadian Rockies. The area cont ...
, at the headwaters of the
Wapiti River, northeast of
Prince George and west of
Monkman Provincial Park
Monkman Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, southwest of Tumbler Ridge and northeast of Hansard. Like Monkman Pass, Monkman Lake, Monkman Creek and Monkman Falls, it was named after Alexander Monkman.
History
By the early ...
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No roads or railways cross the pass. While it and
Monkman Pass
Monkman Pass, in the Canadian Rockies, is southwest of Tumbler Ridge and northeast of Hansard. Found in the Hart Ranges, some consider this mountain pass as the southern limit of the informal grouping known as the Northern Rockies, although those a ...
were surveyed prior to the building of the
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, the GTP decided to use the
Yellowhead Pass to the southeast instead.
Mountain passes of British Columbia
Canadian Rockies
Northern Interior of British Columbia
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