Adams Lake Marine Park is a BC Parks site in the Thompson region, about 125 kilometres northeast of Kamloops in south central British Columbia. BC Parks describes it as a wilderness area with boating and fishing opportunities on Adams Lake.
The park is made up of three marine sites: Spillman Beaches, Poplar Point, and Refuge Bay.
Adams Lake Marine Park is for visitors planning a boat-based lake trip with beaches, fishing, paddling, and a more self-reliant style of camping or day use. Spillman Beaches has some of the best beaches on Adams Lake, plus an alluvial fan, the lower reaches of Spillman Creek, pine forest, birch, cottonwoods, western red cedar, grassland, and shrubs.
Poplar Point is boat-access only and offers lakeshore camping and day use in a marine wilderness setting. Refuge Bay is one of the few secure boat landing sites on the north end of Adams Lake and provides vehicle and boat access to camping opportunities suited to visitors with backcountry experience.
Activities listed by BC Parks include swimming, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, wildlife viewing, waterskiing, windsurfing, scuba diving, and hunting in season. Adams Lake is noted for kokanee and rainbow trout, and Spillman Creek contains wild rainbow trout with possible spawning habitat.
Plan around boat-access camping, natural sand and pebble beaches, canoeing, kayaking, kokanee and rainbow trout fishing, windsurfing, waterskiing, scuba diving, wildlife viewing, and seasonal hunting where permitted.
Adams Lake can have strong, gusty winds and fast-changing water conditions. Bring drinking water, watch high-water pullout limitations in May and June, confirm fishing and hunting rules, and check BC Parks updates before travelling.
