GOLD RUSH SNOWMOBILE TRAIL

463 KM. FIVE COMMUNITIES. ONE BIG RIDE.

Top left: Snowmobile riders on a snowy trail through trees covered in snow. Top right: Map of Washington State showing snowmobile trail routes. Bottom left: Map of Washington State highlighting the snowmobile trail region. Bottom right: Snowmobile riders on a wooden trail through a forested snowy landscape.

The Gold Rush Snowmobile Trail runs 463 kilometres through the heart of this country, weaving together small communities, local trail networks and an enormous stretch of winter terrain. Along the way, old mining remnants, weathered structures and traces of the region’s gold-rush past still turn up beside the trail.

Ride a section and be back at the truck that afternoon. Or load the tunnel bag, point your skis north and keep going—pulling into another community for fuel, food and a warm bed before doing it all over again the next morning.

A lot changes along the way. Forest gives way to frozen lakes, wetlands and open country before the Cariboo Mountains rise ahead. But the independence and self-reliance that have always defined this part of BC are never far from the trail. Out here, the journey is still the point.

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CLINTON → 100 MILE HOUSE

PLATEAU & COWBOY COUNTRY
From Clinton, the trail rolls onto the high plateau of the South Cariboo through grasslands and open stands of lodgepole pine. 70 Mile House makes a natural stop along the way, while simple backcountry warming shelters offer places to knock the snow off your boots and get out of the wind.

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100 MILE HOUSE → LIKELY

LAKES & GOLD COUNTRY
North of 100 Mile House, lakes begin appearing between the trees as the trail winds past frozen shorelines, wetlands and old gold country. Horsefly carries some of the region’s earliest mining history, while Likely is the kind of place where lunch can easily turn into local intel for tomorrow’s ride.

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LIKELY → NORTH

INTO THE CARIBOO MOUNTAINS
Beyond Likely, the country begins to climb toward the Cariboo Mountains. Yanks Peak opens the door to a larger mountain-riding network, while farther north, Wells and Barkerville bring the journey back into the heart of BC’s gold-rush history, still written across the landscape.

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463KM IN MOTION

Follow the BC Snowmobile Federation’s 50th anniversary ride north through the Cariboo, linking trails, communities and gold-rush country on the journey toward Barkerville.