Quesnel & Area Information
Things to do in Quesnel and Area:
Walking:
• Take the Historic Walking Tour which starts at our Quesnel Museum.
See now and then.
• Walk our famous Riverfront Trail System including the famous wooden
Walking Bridge that crosses the mighty Fraser River, about two blocks
away
• Tour the Quesnel Museum, one of the top 10 community museums in
British Columbia
• See Shiraoi House, honouring our Japanese Sister City, located
in Lebourdais Park
• Shop downtown Quesnel
• Mill or
Forestry Tours, check with the Visitor
Info Centre at 250.992.8716 for more info
Driving:
• Take in a day at Barkerville,
western North America's largest heritage site. Click
here for packages
• Visit historic Cottonwood
House, the original location of the stop-over house on the old Gold
Rush Trail
• Golf: Quesnel boasts 3 golf couses of varing degree of difficulty.
Click here
for more information.
• Drive a circle
tour, and there are many, in the North Cariboo. Check with the Visitor
Information Centre
• Spend the day at Bowron
Lake Provincial Park, a world class canoeing circuit
• see Pinnacles
Provincial Park, the site of 12 million year old "hoodoos"
five minutes away from the city
Distances
Transportation:
3 blocks from Greyhound Bus Terminal
6.5 kilometers from Quesnel Airport
120 kilometers from Prince George Airport
Attractions
1 block from G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital
3 blocks to Billy Barker Casino
5 blocks from Lebourdais Park
0.5 kilometers from Quesnel Museum and Archives
3.2 kilometers from Quesnel District Recreation and Art Center
5.0 Kilometers from CASCAR track
6.5 kilometers from Golf
27 kilometers from Cottonwood House Historic Site (20 min driving time)
40 kilometers to snow skiing (40 min driving time)
85 kilometers from historic town of Barkerville (1 hr 10 min driving time)
Click here for information on distances from Quesnel to other cities
For more information on the North Cariboo, click here.
