- Cayoosh Pass
Cayoosh Pass (1275 m / 4183 ft) is a mountain pass in the
Lillooet Ranges of the southernCoast Mountains ofBritish Columbia ,Canada , just west ofDuffey Lake on BC Highway 99 between the towns of Lillooet and Pemberton, formed by the headwaters ofCayoosh Creek to the east, flowing to theFraser River at Lillooet, and Joffre Creek to the west, flowing steeply downhill toLillooet Lake just southeast of the Mount Currie Indian Reserve.Cayoosh Pass and the valleys of Cayoosh and Joffre Creeks form the southern boundary of the
Cayoosh Range , a subrange of the Lillooet Ranges. Long known to theSt'at'imc andLil'wat peoples whose territories include it, the pass was first traversed by a non-indigenous person whenJames Duffey , aka "Sapper Duffy" of theRoyal Engineers , investigated the route in 1859-1860 during a resurvey and reconstruction of theDouglas Road , the route of which passed the Joffre Creek foot of the pass and followeed the norhtern perimeter of the Cayoosh Range. Cayoosh Pass was reported by Sapper Duffey to be too steep for wagons and any thought of a road by that route was shelved until the later 20th Century. Newer engineering techniques in the 1970s saw a surge in logging road construction in the Pemberton area, which came over the summit of the pass into valleys south of Duffey Lake. Logging roads from the Lillooet side eventually linked up with the Pemberton-side roads by the late 1970s and this route was ultimately chosen for the extension of Highway 99 northwards from Pemberton, over the other available routes were one via Railroad Pass and theHurley River , to the north of Pemberton, and another via Anderson andSeton Lake s, the route followed by the railway.ee also
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Duffey Lake Provincial Park
*Joffre Lakes Provincial Park References
* [http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=3468 BCGNIS entry "Cayoosh Pass"]
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