At the end of the 2018 camping season, Recreation Sites and Trails BC closed the Skwellepil Creek rec site and began decommissioning it, removing the infrastructure, locking the gate, and posting the site as being permanently closed. Over the next year, one 4WDABC member made it his mission to fight to reopen the site, and in April of 2019, it officially reopened under our West Harrison maintenance contract. Since then the 4WDABC has continued to look after and upgrade the site, adding new fire rings and outhouses, clearing danger trees, reconstructing the boat launch, and holding regular maintenance weekends.
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Minimal snow means an early start to the camping season! Come help us get Skwellepil ready for the coming year - we're looking for volunteers to help with: Hauling cut wood to stockpiles. Brush clearing. Garbage removal. Upper outhouse cleaning and maintenance. Removing rocks and wood stacked in upper cross ditches. We will supply cleaning...
We will be hosting a maintenance day at Skwellepil Creek. Thanks to some amazing volunteers a bunch of tables got rebuilt and are now in need of some new paint. We will also be trying to get the ditches dug out as per our RSTBC agreement. A few of us will be heading down to...
DATE CHANGED TO MAY 31 Meetup will be the parking lot behind the Sasquatch inn. 9:30 am. The new outhouses at Skwellepil need to be painted and the cross ditches need to be cleared out as people have filled them in. We will have paint supplies and shovels. Probably do a cleanup while there too....
Come help us get Skwellepil in tip-top shape for summer! We will be there doing maintenance on Saturday and Sunday; everyone is welcome to join either day, or both days! Some of the tasks we will be doing include: replacing rotten parts of the outhouses painting outhouses cleaning up around the site raking out campsites...
As part of our agreement with Rec Sites and Trails BC for the ongoing care of Skwellepil Creek Rec Site, they require that it be maintained as "4x4-access only" by keeping the cross-ditches in the trail cleared out. To kick off this summer camping season, then, we'll be having a "ditch-clearing" day and we invite...