About Us
Find out more about us at Bridge River Valley Accommodation
Close to the historic mining town of Gold Bridge in the Bridge River Valley, our ranch and mountain accommodation provides easy access to the South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park, Big Creek Provincial Park and the Shulaps Mountain Range. This area is part of the internationally ecologically important Chilcotin Ark, a biodiversity hotspot in British Columbia, Canada. You can experience sandy shale mountains, rolling plateaus, forests, creeks and glacial lakes. We share this area with grizzly and black bears, moose, wolf, mountain goats, bald eagles, California Bighorn sheep, mule deer, cougars and more. Some of these animals pass through our property, others are encountered while riding, hiking or driving only a short distance from the ranch. Find out more about the Chilcotin Ark here.
Getting Here – Important Information
We are located six hours from Vancouver, four hours from Kamloops and Whistler, two and a half hours from Pemberton (if taking the Hurley) and two hours from Lillooet. This is a remote rural location, there are no electric car chargers here and the road isn’t suitable for low-clearance vehicles. Make sure to gas up before leaving Lillooet or Pemberton as gas and diesel aren’t always available in Gold Bridge.
The Hurley Forest Service Road is an unmaintained gravel road and a short cut from Vancouver, but be prepared for washboard and bumpy roads. If you have a rental car, you won’t be able to take this route as the rental company’s insurance won’t cover you for damage or breakdowns. Do not drive this road in the dark!
Highway 40 from Lillooet is a partially unpaved road which is plowed year round – for snow in the winter and rocks in the summer. Be prepared for sharp corners, passing logging trucks in tight sections and steep drop offs down cliffs into the lake – don’t drive at more than 60 km/h on this road. Do not drive this road in the dark!
Carry a spare tire and all tire changing equipment and know how to change a flat tire. Flat tires from rocks on the road aren’t uncommon.
Accessing the Bridge River Valley on these roads isn’t for the faint-of-heart, but it is the perfect introduction to the wilderness lifestyle. And you will be rewarded with views of lakes, rivers and mountains and maybe even spot some wildlife such as California Bighorn sheep, mule deer and black or grizzly bears.
Please call us as you’re leaving Lillooet (Highway 40 route) or Pemberton (Hurley Forest Service Road route) so we know when to expect you and can make sure you arrive safely. There is no cell service after you leave these towns so if you haven’t arrived in the expected time frame, we will come to find you and make sure everything is ok.
Send a Booking Request
Send a booking request or head to our contact page to give us a call, we can answer any questions you might have.
Our Community
Our community calls our guest ranch home. We will show you to your accommodation, guide you on trail rides, hiking trips or teach you how to gold pan and prepare meals in our ranch house. We know the importance of a deep nature connection as we live a wilderness lifestyle and are always investing in ourselves to become more self-sufficient in this remote area and feel the sense of empowerment being independent brings. Because we benefit from this environment, we recognize our responsibility to conserve it and are always becoming more conscious of our role and actions as wilderness stewards.
Our secluded, small scale ranch accommodation is located onsite at the Wilderness Trails Guest Ranch who facilitate the ranch-based activities which you can find out more about on our Things to Do page, as well as running conservation-focused pack trips and training programs. Our mountain accommodation is maintained by Wilderness Trails who operate the following additional services:
- Pack horses to carry your gear to camp
- Horse or hike guides to journey with you to camp
- Trail head drop offs (includes six-bike car rack for mountain biker drop offs)
Want to bring your own horse to ride the mountain trails? We have a secure horse corral in our campground for your horse to stay. Whether you want to set up a horse pen beside your rig, high-line your horses between trees or put them in our corral, we have plenty of options for Bed and Bale. You can either stay in your rig with your horse in the campground or stay in one of our cabins or ranch rooms. Take a look at each accommodation page for more details. If you want to explore deeper into the park, all of our cabins are horse-friendly. We have hitching posts, corrals and / or grazing meadows at every camp so you can explore the back-country with your own equine partner.
One of the first things you will notice when you arrive at the ranch is that we have a lot of animals. Some of our horse herd are mountain Cayuse horses from the wild horse herds of the Chilcotin Region. Saddle up and ride the spirit of the wild on a trail ride adventure. Our chickens lay eggs that we serve up at meal times, whether as scrambled eggs for breakfast or baked into desserts at dinner time. Our cats are the best pest-controllers you’ve ever met, keeping the mice, squirrels and pack rats away from the ranch property – some of them love to be petted, others are real wild cats! Our dogs will come to greet you and maybe accompany you on a hike around the property.
Gain FREE access to our Nature Connection Course today!
All of our programs and courses with our training partner the Institute for Human Potential are self-directed providing you with information, inspiration and self-reflection prompts for you to put into action.
Are you ready to gain free access to your Nature Connection course? You will:
- Discover the five benefits of nature available to you right now
- Receive a daily nature journal and meditation
- Find a deeper connection to nature and yourself