Mount Edziza Provincial Park and Recreation Area

Mount Edziza Provincial Park is a vast wilderness covering about 266,180 hectares and features many types of volcanoes, including shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes, cinder cones, lava domes, and calderas. The landscape displays a remarkable range of volcanic formations built over thousands of years by repeated eruptions.

British Columbia officially created the park in 1972 after aerial surveys revealed its remarkable volcanic landscape. The region had long held importance for its valuable stone deposits that attracted trade long before modern times.

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.

Location: Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine

Inception: 1972

GPS coordinates: 57.58310,-130.66700

Latest update: December 6, 2025 17:47