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Niagara (Thompson Okanagan)
  1. Almond Gardens (Grand Forks, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  2. Boothman's Oxbow Park (Grand Forks, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
  3. Carson (Grand Forks, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  4. Gilpin Grasslands Park (Grand Forks, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
5. Grand Forks (City) / Burrell Creek / Granby River (Grand Forks, 8km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 442-8266 - Leave a Public Review
After the Hon. Martin Burrell, a fruitgrower who became, successively, mayor of Grand Forks, an MP, federal Minister of Agriculture, and Librarian of the Parliamentary Library in Ottawa.
6. Niagara / Brown Creek (Grand Forks, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
It and nearby Volcanic Creek commemorate 'Volcanic' Brown, a colourful prospector who perished while seeking a 'lost mine.'
  7. Nursery (Grand Forks, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
8. Phoenix (Grand Forks, 8km) Your Host(s): Post Office - Leave a Public Review
Phoenix - The mining town that grew up here around 1900 took its name from the Phoenix claim.
  9. Rhone (Grand Forks, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Anaconda (Greenwood, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Boundary Creek Park (Greenwood, 15km) - Leave a Public Review
  12. Boundary Falls (Greenwood, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Deadwood (Greenwood, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
14. Eholt / Rock Candy Creek (Greenwood, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Eholt - After Louis Eholt, who began ranching in the area around 1890. Eholt was a busy rail centre during the mining activity at Phoenix and elsewhere early in the twentieth century.
15. Greenwood (City) / Henderson Creek (Greenwood, 15km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 445-6644 - Leave a Public Review
Greenwood - Writing to the Chief Geographer of Canada in 1905, R.A. Brown reported that Greenwood was named after another mining camp, Greenwood, Colorado.
  16. Jewel Lake Park (Greenwood, 15km) - Leave a Public Review
  17. Billings (Christina Lake, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Cascade (Christina Lake, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. Christina Lake / Italy Creek / Sandner Creek / Stewart Creek / Sutherland Creek / Xenia Lake (Christina Lake, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named, apparently around 1860, after Christina, the mixed-blood daughter of Angus McDonald, the HBC factor at Fort Colvile.
  20. Christina Lake Park (Christina Lake, 20km) - Leave a Public Review
  21. Fife (Christina Lake, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. Gilpin (Christina Lake, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Gilpin - After Ralph Gilpin, first customs officer in Grand Forks, 1884, and local farmer.
  23. Gladstone Park (Christina Lake, 20km) - Leave a Public Review
  24. Paulson (Christina Lake, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review