Bridge Lake Park is a BC Parks campground on the south end of Bridge Lake, near the community of Bridge Lake and about 50 kilometres east of 100 Mile House. BC Parks says the area is important for local recreation and resort day hikes.
The park protects undeveloped shoreline and all but one of the islands in Bridge Lake.
Bridge Lake is a Cariboo lakeside camping and boating park with a mix of shoreline recreation and wildlife habitat. Old logging and skid roads are overgrown enough to make good hiking and horseback riding trails, while the open shoreline has small bays and inlets for canoeing, swimming, boating, and fishing.
Anglers come for rainbow trout, kokanee, lake char, lake trout, and burbot. Bridge Lake is also popular with canoeists and kayakers, and a boat launch supports waterskiing and motorized boating.
There is no roped swimming area, so lake use stays self-directed.
The park's undeveloped shoreline, Douglas-fir and spruce stands, islands, and adjacent habitats support bald eagle nests, active beaver colonies, birds, black bear, fox, coyote, mule deer, mink, and river otter.
Plan around frontcountry camping, canoeing, kayaking, boating, waterskiing, unroped swimming, Bridge Lake fishing, shoreline wildlife watching, old-road hiking, horseback riding, and road cycling within park limits.
There is no drinking water because the former well was decommissioned due to arsenic concerns. Remove weeds from boats to help prevent Eurasian water milfoil spread, keep pets leashed, and do not use ORVs in the park.
