Cinnemousun Narrows Park is a BC Parks site where the four arms of Shuswap Lake meet. BC Parks describes it as a water-access park with a camping area, several shelters, and an extensive beach in one of the interior's popular swimming, houseboating, and waterskiing areas.
Access is by water only, with boat launches available around the Shuswap.
Cinnemousun Narrows is built for a Shuswap Lake trip by boat, canoe, kayak, or houseboat. The park has public wharfs for day use or camping convenience, a buoyed swimming area, and 640 metres of sand and gravel beach.
The lake setting gives visitors several activity options. A 1.5 kilometre trail leads to viewpoints over Seymour Arm and Anstey Arm. Canoeing and kayaking are available, waterskiing and windsurfing occur on Shuswap Lake, and scuba diving is also noted by BC Parks. Fishing is a major draw: Shuswap Lake contains 19 fish species and year-round fishing, including lake trout, rainbow trout, bull trout, kokanee, burbot, and whitefish.
The park was established in 1956 and sits in the Interior Cedar and Hemlock zone, with western yew among the plants visitors may notice.
Plan around marine-access camping, public wharfs, beach time, swimming, paddling, fishing, the 1.5 kilometre viewpoint trail, waterskiing, windsurfing, scuba diving, leashed-pet walks away from beaches, and seasonal hunting where permitted.
Expect heavy boat traffic and watch for diver, anchorage, and swimming-area buoys. The hand pump provides lake water that must be boiled or treated, there are no public phones, quiet hours run from 10pm to 7am, and houseboat beaching is restricted between signs at Haven Point and the ranger cabin from May 15 to Labour Day.
