We packed up at our hotel in Revelstoke and at breakfast, met The Regent Hotel owner and his wife, Fred and Marcy, and had a pleasant chat with them. They had just been visiting their son in Germany where he is the lead designer for Adidas. Saturday was the weekly farmers' market and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was scheduled to be in Revelstoke later in the day. Patty saw some of his Secret Service guards checking things out.
We went to the grocery store and bought salads for our picnic lunch and then headed east. We planned to visit the Secwepemc Museum and Cultural Center in Kamloops. However, even though their website says they are open Monday through Saturday during the summer, they were closed and the signs said open Monday through Friday. Bummer. Since the park is on First Nations land (I think we would call it tribal land or reservation in the USA), they had interesting stop signs. Rather than in English and French, they were in English and their native language. I looked on line and see that has caused some controversy.
So we looked in the British Columbia Provincial Parks booklet I had picked up in Revelstoke and found that McConnell Provincial Park was on the way to Hope and only about 25 minutes from Kamloops. We pulled in to a small but nearly full parking lot (it holds maybe 20 cars) and had lunch on one of the picnic tables. We then set out on the loop trail that goes around the lake.
We soon came to a gate intended to let hikers through but to keep cattle on the other side. From what I later found out online, Frolek Cattle Co. leases land in the park to let their cattle graze. We did not see any, but it reminded us of our stay two years ago in Munds Park, AZ, where cattle grazed in the National Forest lands adjacent to the house we rented through VRBO.
We continued on around the lake, going though nice shaded woods and sometimes in the sun. The trail went as close as inches to the lake and never more than 100 feet away. It was a pleasant walk in the woods.
Once on the other side, we could look back to where we had lunch.
And then it was on Hope. Our hotel is across the street from a small but beautiful city park.
We went to the grocery store and bought salads for our picnic lunch and then headed east. We planned to visit the Secwepemc Museum and Cultural Center in Kamloops. However, even though their website says they are open Monday through Saturday during the summer, they were closed and the signs said open Monday through Friday. Bummer. Since the park is on First Nations land (I think we would call it tribal land or reservation in the USA), they had interesting stop signs. Rather than in English and French, they were in English and their native language. I looked on line and see that has caused some controversy.
So we looked in the British Columbia Provincial Parks booklet I had picked up in Revelstoke and found that McConnell Provincial Park was on the way to Hope and only about 25 minutes from Kamloops. We pulled in to a small but nearly full parking lot (it holds maybe 20 cars) and had lunch on one of the picnic tables. We then set out on the loop trail that goes around the lake.
We soon came to a gate intended to let hikers through but to keep cattle on the other side. From what I later found out online, Frolek Cattle Co. leases land in the park to let their cattle graze. We did not see any, but it reminded us of our stay two years ago in Munds Park, AZ, where cattle grazed in the National Forest lands adjacent to the house we rented through VRBO.
We continued on around the lake, going though nice shaded woods and sometimes in the sun. The trail went as close as inches to the lake and never more than 100 feet away. It was a pleasant walk in the woods.
Once on the other side, we could look back to where we had lunch.
And then it was on Hope. Our hotel is across the street from a small but beautiful city park.
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