Cabin Lake (Merritt)

Description And Directions

Site Description: The recreation site is utilized for camping, landscape viewing, hiking the sub alpine nearby and snowmobiling. It is also a known local First Nations' cultural site used occasionally for small First Nations gatherings. Please no summer motorized recreation vehicles. Although the campsite is flat the access road in only allows for high centre 4 wheel drive trucks with campers or tents to use this site. Not suitable for any vehicle towing a house, tent or utility trailer.

Driving Directions: First of all the access to this site is for high centered 4 wheel drive vehicles only as the road gets extremly rough as you near the site with several small creek crossings and rocks on the road. From Merritt drive west along Highway 8 for about 20 km. Turn left (where the fish hatchery and snowmobile signs are and continue up this road for 24km's. At the 24km mark keep to the left, go a short distance and keep to the left again, cross the bridge and you are on the Miner Forest Service Road. From here on in there are no km markers so set you odometer to 0. Continue another 11.2 km then keep right and continue for 0.8 km.,turn right and drive for another 0.5 km. At this point turn left. You should be close to 2.3 km from when you set your oddmeter to 0. Continue on this road for about 5 km until you get to Cabin Lake and you will see why it was worth the rough drive.