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Annis (Thompson Okanagan)
  1. Mara Park (Mara, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  2. Anstey Hunakwa Park / Anstey Arm (Sicamous, 9km) - Leave a Public Review
Anstey Arm - The son of a master at Rugby, the famous English public school, Francis Senior Anstey became, during the building of the CPR, the first large-scale lumberman on Shuswap Lake.
  3. Bastion Bay (Sicamous, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
4. Cambie (Sicamous, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Henry J. Cambie (1836-1928) deserves more than this whistle stop on the CPR. Born in County Tipperary, Ireland, he came to Canada while still a boy and learned surveying and railway construction on the Grand Trunk and Intercolonial railways.
  5. Kingfisher Creek Ecological Reserve (Sicamous, 9km) - Leave a Public Review
  6. Kingfisher Creek Park (Sicamous, 9km) - Leave a Public Review
7. Sicamous (District) / Cinnemousin Narrows / Hunakwa Lake / Mara Lake / Ratchford Creek (Sicamous, 9km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 836-2477 - Leave a Public Review
Cinnemousin Narrows - in July 1865 Walter Moberly camped 'at the narrows called Cium-moust-un, which means 'come and go back again.''
  8. Sicamous 3 (Sicamous, 9km) - Leave a Public Review
  9. Six Mile Point (Sicamous, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
10. Solsqua (Sicamous, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Solsqua - An anglicization of the Shuswap Indian word meaning 'water.'
  11. Upper Shuswap River Ecological Reserve (Sicamous, 9km) - Leave a Public Review
12. Canoe / Engineers Point (Canoe, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Reputedly early white travellers were impressed by the number of Indian dugout canoes drawn up on the fine beach here.
  13. Herald Park (Canoe, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  14. Annis (Grindrod, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Deep Creek (Grindrod, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Grandview Bench (Grindrod, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
17. Grindrod (Grindrod, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Grindrod - After Edmund Holden Grindrod, first CPR inspector of telegraphs in British Columbia (1886) and later a farmer near Kamloops.
18. Hupel (Grindrod, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Hupel - After Herman ('Mike') Hupel, a genial, crosseyed German-American who became postmaster here in 1910.
  19. Mara (Grindrod, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Ranchero (Grindrod, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. White Lake Park (Eagle Bay, 18km) - Leave a Public Review
  22. Broadview (Salmon Arm, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Mara Meadows Ecological Reserve (Salmon Arm, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  24. Mara Meadows Park (Salmon Arm, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
25. Salmon Arm (City) / Shuswap Lake (Salmon Arm, 17km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 803-4000 - Leave a Public Review
Salmon Arm - Takes its name from Shuswap Lake's southwest arm, which in turn was named back in the days when the salmon swarmed up its creeks and river in such numbers that the settlers pitchforked them out of the water and
  26. Salmon River 1 (Salmon Arm, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  27. Seymour Arm (Salmon Arm, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Silver Creek (Salmon Arm, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. South Canoe (Salmon Arm, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Sweetsbridge (Salmon Arm, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  31. Switsemalph 3 (Salmon Arm, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  32. Switsemalph 6 (Salmon Arm, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  33. Switsemalph 7 (Salmon Arm, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  34. Upper Violet Creek Park (Salmon Arm, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  35. Kamloops 2 (Tappen, 18km) - Leave a Public Review
  36. North Bay 5 (Tappen, 18km) - Leave a Public Review
  37. Paradise Point (Tappen, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
38. Tappen / Herald Provincial Park / Kault Hill / Skimikin Creek (Tappen, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Herald Provincial Park - Dr. Dundas Herald acquired this fine lakefront property in 1906. In 1975 the provincial government purchased the land from Miss Jessie Herald but retained the family name for the park that it then established.