Browne Lake Provincial Park

Browne Lake Provincial Park
Provincial Park
A Calm Rainy Morning in Late Autumn at Browne Lake Provincial Park
Country Canada
Location Okanagan
 - coordinates 49°49′30″N 119°11′15″W / 49.82500°N 119.18750°W / 49.82500; -119.18750Coordinates: 49°49′30″N 119°11′15″W / 49.82500°N 119.18750°W / 49.82500; -119.18750
Area 47 ha (116 acres)
Founded 2004
Management BC Parks
Location within British Columbia

Browne Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located 22 km east-southeast of Kelowna in the Okanagan Highland, near Big White Ski Resort and between the heads of Hydraulic and Grouse Creeks.[1]

The park was established in 2004 by Order-in-Council, to protect the Interior Douglas-fir-Montane Spruce transition forest.[2]

Browne Lake Ecological Reserve, comprising 114 hectares, lies to its northwest, and had been established in 1973, to protect a wet meadow ecosystem and surrounding forest in the Interior Cedar Hemlock zone.[3]

References

  1. "Browne Lake Park". BC Geographical Names.
  2. "Browne Lake Provincial Park". British Columbia, Ministry of Environment. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
  3. "Browne Lake Ecological Reserve". BC Geographical Names.


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