Come back to nature
Dogwood Vacation
Log Home
15 km North of Hope,
BC Canada.
Two hours' drive from Vancouver
Address: 27454 Yurkin Road, Hope V0X
1L0
Tel: 604-617-1203
Fax: 604-430-5727
Email: dogwoodvacation@edlink.ca
Things
To Do
Around the Log
Home
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Walk to
breakfast at
Dogwood
Gas Station and Cafe.
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Writing the book
or poem you did not get a chance to start.
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Star-gazing
or watch the moon rises at night on the deck.
Sky condition.
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Hiking trails are abundant. Check
out the 3 km
river-side hike to Emory Creek
Provincial Park .
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Bird watching.
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Fishing. Enjoy
year round activities
for serious fisherman as for family outings.
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Become part of the "West Coast" ecosystem
Dogwood Cedar Maple Pine Spruce
Black-capped chickadee American
Robin
Song Sparrow Steller's
Jay Towhee
Click to check out more bird species in this vacinity
Hope
The city of Hope is an easy 10-minures drive from Dogwood Vacation Home.
Outdoor Learning - Hope Mountain Centre provides various programs in all seasons for outdoor learning, from paddle skill to bird watching, rock identification to mushroom searching. The mission is to provide outdoor education and ecological awareness opportunities in the watersheds of southwest British Columbia.
Flying - Hope Airport's 1,400 meter grass strip (uncontrolled, no lights) attracts private flyers. Hope Airport is home base for the Vancouver Soaring Association, tow-planes and gliders busy the summer skies. If you drop in to visit them, they will provide familiarization sessions. Valley Helicopter near the airport, provides helicopter tours along the Fraser or inland. Dropping hikers at the top of mountains is a popular service.
Movie Locations
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With its rugged landscaping and
vaccinity to Vancouver Hope has been a popular location in film-shooting:
First Blood (1982) ;
Shoot to Kill (1988) ;
Hope Springs (2003) ;
Fire With Fire (1986) ;
White Fang II (1994) ;
The Pledge (2001) ;
The Stick Up (2003) ;
Suspicious River (2004) ;
Afghan Knights (2007) ;
Wind Chill (2007).
Chainsaw Carving - Hope is known as the "Chainsaw Carving Capital" of Canada. The unusual artistry
produces carvings from logs
feature local wildlife-eagles, bears, mountain sheep, cougars
and Hope's
past. Special visits of artist working
can be arranged by visiting the Hope Info Centre.
challenges golfers of all skills levels with a spectacular 9 greens, 18 tees layout.
Othello
Tunnels - In the Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park. Built in 1914, five
tunnels were dug
simultaneously as a unique way for
the railroad to get through the Coquihalla gorge where the river
had cut a 300-foot deep channel in a wall of solid granite.
Harrison Hot Spring
Harrison Hot Spring is a comfortable 30-minutes drive from Dogwood Vacation Home.
There are
two mountain springs of 58 to 62 degree Celsius all year round
(136 to 143 Degrees Fahrenheit).
An indoor mineral hot pool is available for the public to enjoy.
The hot springs were discovered in 1858 by settlers
while enroute to the gold fields. The hot springs were revered
as a "healing place" by natives of the Coast Salish
people, who traveled by canoe to benefit from their waters.
Manning Provincial
Park
Manning Provincial Park is a pleasant 45-minures drive from Dogwood Vacation Home.
Located in the heart of the
Cascade Mountains, Manning Provincial Park offers a wide range
of outdoor activities
including hiking, canoeing, and swimming in the summer to
skiing, cross-country, snowboarding, snowshoeing
and ice skating in the winter.
The Fraser Canyon
North of Dogwood Vacation Home,
along Trans Canada #1 highway, following the Fraser River, is
The
Fraser Canyon,
BC's gold rush trail. This section includes the towns of Hells
Gate, Yale, Boston Bar, and Lytton, and is famous for
white-water raftings.
Many waters and waterways make boating a natural. Kawkawa Lake has a public boat launch. Check out Lake of the Woods, the Fraser River and its tributaries, Silver Lake up the Skagit. Companies providing river rides are based in Yale and Boston Bar. In season, boats are used to tend fishing nets on the Fraser.
Gold digging made this stretch of land history and brought British Columbia into the confederation of Canada. With the Gold Rush in 1858, Yale became the head of navigation of the Fraser River as the rapids above Yale were impassable to the stern wheelers. Construction of the Canadian National Railway had enabled the route to be traveled by visitors.
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