Hiking Day Trips
Day-trips will be around 4-6 hours a day on well groomed trails. There are around 40 trails in the Tumbler Ridge region into attractions like: Kinuseo falls, various small waterfalls, caves, dinosaur trackways, lakes, and original sections of the Monkman Pass Highway. MONKMAN will supply equipment if required. Accomodations will be in Tumbler Ridge and MONKMAN can set them up for guests.
Please contact us to customize a trip to your needs and expectations.
Hiking Multi-Day Trips
Multi-day expeditions can range from 2 to 8 days in length. MONKMAN will be focusing on the Monkman Pass Memorial Trail and Monkman Provincial Park. Guests will be staying in 3 season tents in designated camp spots along the trail. MONKMAN will customize the trip to client requests, weather, and athletic ability. The Memorial Trail is approx. 60 km long and passes through Boreal Forest, Sub-alpine, Alpine, and Temporate Boreal forest.
Highlights along the trail will be lack of people, extreme wilderness, Kinuseo falls, series of 10 waterfalls, Monkman Lake, Tarns region, Fontoniko valley, and many historical trail markings from the Highway Association. Camps will be equipped with provisions for bad weather or wildlife problems. MONKMAN will supply tents, backpacks, and general supplies if required. Guests will be expected to supply their own food due to allergies; however, MONKMAN can take them to supply store once here.
Please contact us to customize a trip to your needs and expectations.
Click here to see trail maps of Monkman Pass Memorial Trail.
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History of the Monkman Pass
A man named Alex Monkman had a vision of a trade route that went from the Peace Country to the West Coast through a very low pass, south of what is now the town of Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
He believed that it was the quickest, most economic and efficient route for the Peace Country farmers to market their produce. He rallied the government to put a railway through the pass, however the government did not agree with him and eventually shelved the idea.
Alex Monkman refused to let his vision die and in 1936 formed the Monkman Pass Highway Association. They led a drive to push a highway through the pass and establish the trade route themselves. Over the next three years, many people put their heart and soul into the highway route.
Many of the people laboured for only three meals a day and to share in the adventure. With limited funds, a challenging trail, and the outbreak of the Second World War, sadly the highway project came to a halt. It was not before they managed to drive, push, pull, and claw a Model T truck through the Pass.
The sheer determination and courage is something that Western Canadians are famous for and is why the Peace Region is so successful today.
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