Mount Edziza Provincial Park and Recreation Area, Provincial park in the Cassiar Land District, British Columbia, Canada
Mount Edziza Provincial Park covers 266,180 hectares in the Cassiar Land District of northern British Columbia, about 55 km south of Dease Lake, with Telegraph Creek at its northern edge. Its centre is Mount Edziza, a 2,793 m volcano, and the park runs from the Stikine River southward through the Boundary Ranges. It contains overlapping shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes, cinder cones, lava domes and calderas in a north-south line, from Mount Edziza to the Spectrum Range.
The park was established on 27 February 1972, initially covering about 326,000 acres (roughly 1,319 km²). Later legislation changed both its protection status and size, expanding it to its present 266,180 hectares. Before protection, the area was hunting and settlement land of the Tahltan First Nation.
The Tahltan First Nation extracted obsidian from the volcanic rocks here and traded it with peoples across the Queen Charlotte Islands and into Alaska. This exchange was a vital economic link between distant communities for many generations.
The park has no road access, so visitors typically arrive by floatplane landing at one of five lakes or by hiking trails from Telegraph Creek. Planning ahead is important since the remote location means limited facilities and services for travelers.
The park holds about thirty cone-shaped volcanoes with striking colors of brown, magenta, and white arranged in a notably symmetric pattern across the landscape. The most recent eruption happened around 1,300 years ago, making this one of Canada's younger volcanic regions.
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