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Kinuseo Falls
Kinuseo Falls is in remote Monkman Park, in northeastern British Columbia. The park is named for Alex Monkman, who spearheaded a project to build a highway in the lowest elevation mountain pass through the Canadian Rockies.
The initial rough cut of a road through the pass was nearly completed by the late 1930's but was postponed when WWII broke out. The trail was complete except for one challenging 28 km section and in fact, one symbolic shipment of grain was transported from Alberta through British Columbia using this route.
After the war, the British Columbia government actually prohibited any further work on the route and gave citizens of Fort St John and Dawson Creek the right to vote on whether the Monkman Pass or the Pine Pass would be the route through the Rockies. The Pine Pass route would result in a highway through their towns, so of course that pass was favored. The Monkman Pass became a footnote of historical interest.
Today, you can get to Monkman Park and Kinuseo Falls via a (poorly) maintained Murray River forestry road. Upstream of Kinuseo Falls, you can hike the Monkman Pass Memorial Trail, a hiking route for advanced back country enthusiasts.
This view of Kinuseo Falls is reached by a short and easy trail through the forest with the trailhead near the top of the falls. The trail has not been maintained for a couple of years though and is lightly travelled, so you will be dealing with a lot of new growth and deadfall.
By the way, Kinuseo Falls was a location featured in the recent movie Seventh Son.
Kinuseo Falls
Kinuseo Falls is in remote Monkman Park, in northeastern British Columbia. The park is named for Alex Monkman, who spearheaded a project to build a highway in the lowest elevation mountain pass through the Canadian Rockies.
The initial rough cut of a road through the pass was nearly completed by the late 1930's but was postponed when WWII broke out. The trail was complete except for one challenging 28 km section and in fact, one symbolic shipment of grain was transported from Alberta through British Columbia using this route.
After the war, the British Columbia government actually prohibited any further work on the route and gave citizens of Fort St John and Dawson Creek the right to vote on whether the Monkman Pass or the Pine Pass would be the route through the Rockies. The Pine Pass route would result in a highway through their towns, so of course that pass was favored. The Monkman Pass became a footnote of historical interest.
Today, you can get to Monkman Park and Kinuseo Falls via a (poorly) maintained Murray River forestry road. Upstream of Kinuseo Falls, you can hike the Monkman Pass Memorial Trail, a hiking route for advanced back country enthusiasts.
This view of Kinuseo Falls is reached by a short and easy trail through the forest with the trailhead near the top of the falls. The trail has not been maintained for a couple of years though and is lightly travelled, so you will be dealing with a lot of new growth and deadfall.
By the way, Kinuseo Falls was a location featured in the recent movie Seventh Son.