Border Lake Park is a remote BC Parks site in the Unuk River Valley on the Alaska border, about 180 kilometres south of Telegraph Creek. BC Parks says the Unuk River flows through the park and onward into Misty Fjords National Monument in Alaska.
The park centres on a productive wetland complex around three small lakes.
Border Lake is for highly self-reliant wilderness travellers, especially paddlers and rafters looking at the upper Unuk River. BC Parks notes that there is no road access and Border Lake is too small for floatplane landings, so visitors may reach the upper Unuk by air and raft down to the park.
The reward is a wild river-and-wetland setting with strong conservation values. Plant communities include rare species such as yellow marsh-marigold, and the wetlands provide critical spring habitat for grizzly bears.
The waters also support important fish values. BC Parks identifies lake-spawning sockeye salmon, a provincially significant sea-run cutthroat trout population, and an unusual anadromous cutthroat trout. The wetland complex provides excellent nesting and forage habitat for waterfowl, and the broader remote landscape supports mammals, fish, and migratory species.
Plan around remote river rafting, canoeing or kayaking where conditions and logistics allow, fishing, waterfowl and wildlife viewing, photography, wetland observation, and hunting during open season.
This is an extremely remote park with no road access. Plan aviation and river logistics carefully, carry wilderness communication and rescue gear, respect Tahltan territory, confirm fishing and hunting rules, and check BC Parks updates.
