Norbury Lake Provincial Park, Provincial park in East Kootenay, Canada.
Norbury Lake Provincial Park is a natural area in the Kootenay region with a lake surrounded by mountain ranges of the Rocky Mountains. The park extends across open water and forested slopes that shape its landscape.
Norbury Lake Provincial Park was established in 1958 and takes its name from the lake within its boundaries. The lake honours F. Paget Norbury, a magistrate in Fort Steele in the late nineteenth century. The adjoining land was later sold to the Peckham family, whose name replaced Norbury on the central lake.
The park occupies traditional territory of Indigenous peoples of the Kootenay region who lived on these lands long before its creation.
The 46 campsites are first-come, first-served and cannot be reserved; the campground stays open all year and has basic sanitary facilities. The park lies off the main highways, reached from Fort Steele on Highway 93/95 or from Wardner on the Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3). A road cuts diagonally through the rectangular park: camping and Norbury Lake south of it, picnic area and Peckham's Lake north.
Both lakes were once called Norbury Lake, after F. Paget Norbury, a magistrate in Fort Steele in the late nineteenth century. The central lake became Peckham's Lake when Norbury sold the adjoining land to the Peckham family.
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