Churn Creek Canyon

The higher profile of areas upriver from Moran in gold rush times is a reminder that only wheeled travel - wagons and stages - needed to use the road, and that non-wheeled travel could use the Canyon route instead and many did; it was shorter but much more scarce on water and the system of roadhouses available along the Cariboo Road, however..
BC Archives I-57565
The building at left was Phil Grinder's hotel and post office and dates from the time when the Canyon trails were still a major route of travel between Lillooet and the Cariboo.and Big Bar was a relatively busy place.  The picture at right is typical of the rangeland valleys which cut into the Cariboo plateau in the Big Bar area.
Aerial pic from Photos by Kat	Aerial pic from Photos by Kat
I'm uncertain of the location depicted here, which is somewhere between Moran and Dog Creek; I think it's south of Big Bar as there are still mountains flanking the canyon instead of plateau.
Aerial pic from Photos by Kat
Churn Creek Canyon
Aerial pic from Photos by Kat Photo by Kat	BC Archives # I-57593
The Churn Creek Protected Area	BC Archives # B-02676
	Aerial pic from Photos by Kat
Aerial pic from Photos by Kat	Aerial pic from Photos by Kat
Aerial pic from Photos by Kat
This picture is of, I think, Lone Cabin Creek, which is in between Moran and Churn Creek.
Aerial pic from Photos by Kat	Aerial pic from Photos by Kat

Dog Creek & Gang Ranch
Aerial pic from Photos by Kat	The tiny suspension span in the foreground of this picture is the Dog Creek Bridge, the only Royal Engineers' Bridge across the Fraser still in use.  Other similar bridges were at Alexandra (near Yale), Lillooet, Riske Creek (near Williams Lake) and Soda Creek, at the northern perimeter of the Cariboo district north of Quesnel.  The Dog Creek Bridge connects the ranches of the western Cariboo plateau to the sprawling rangelands of the eastern Chilcotin plateau and the famous Gang Ranch, once the world's largest (a title now held by the Douglas Lake Ranchy based near Merritt).  Other river crossings of the river were by cable ("friction" ferries, as at Pavilion) or by aerial ferry, some still in operation (High Bar, Lytton).  The old aerial auto ferry at  Boston Bar, which connected the large community of North Bend to the outside world, has in recent years been replaced by a modern bridge, as has the old suspension crossing of the Fraser from Williams Lake to the Chilcotin at Riske Creek.  Dirt roads run the length of the canyon on both sides - or close to it, as the difficulty of the terrain and the purpose of the roads often lead them onto the plateaux and mountains above.

Alkali Lakes	Aerial pic from Photos by Kat
Aerial pic from Photos by Kat	Aerial pic from Photos by Kat

Jesmond
Aerial pic from Photos by Kat	Aerial pic from Photos by Kat
Aerial pic from Photos by Kat	Aerial pic from Photos by Kat
Aerial pic from Photos by Kat	Aerial pic from Photos by Kat