Cedar Point Park is a Class C BC Parks site on Quesnel Lake, six kilometres beyond Likely. BC Parks says old-growth cedars occur throughout the park, including the campground area.
The park is managed by a local board from Likely rather than as a typical Class A park.
Cedar Point is a local Quesnel Lake campground with old-growth cedar, lake recreation, and mining history. Quesnel Lake offers scenery, swimming, boating, paddling, waterskiing, and fishing for rainbow trout, char, and kokanee.
The park also has a unique outdoor mining museum with mock shafts, adits, and old machinery. BC Parks notes that gold was discovered in nearby Cedar Creek in 1858, while Cedar Point appears on Hudson Bay Company maps from 1832.
Activities include short trails along a creek and the beach at low water, swimming at a sandy beach just outside the park, canoeing and kayaking on Quesnel Lake, whitewater kayaking on nearby Cariboo and Quesnel rivers, fishing, road cycling, and waterskiing. Current official notes also mention firewood, pay-per-use showers, a local-call phone booth, and vehicle or trailer storage fees.
Reservations are handled through the Cedar Point Park board.
Plan around campground stays, old-growth cedar walks, Quesnel Lake swimming, boating, canoeing, kayaking, rainbow trout, char and kokanee fishing, waterskiing, mining museum interpretation, and local-history stops.
Quesnel Lake is large and can have strong winds and big waves. Stay close to shore when paddling, wear a PFD, keep pets leashed, check board reservation details, and respect trees and shrubs.
