Confluence: Trail Creek - Columbia River
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N 49° 05.851 W 117° 42.467
11U E 448331 N 5438537
Though it didn't use to, this is where Trail Creek meets the Columbia.
Waymark Code: WMFPVJ
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 11/14/2012
Views: 4
Trail Creek is a fairly historic little body of water for its size. When Edgar Dewdney was charged with the responsibility of engineering and building the Dewdney Trail in 1865, he started it at four different points, employing four work crews, in order to minimize the time required. In the Trail region, he started a crew working east up the Pend d'Oreille River and another worked eastward up Trail Creek. Trail Creek got its name from the fact that the Dewdney Trail followed it, and the City of Trail, in turn, was named after the creek.
Trail Creek has its headwaters in the vicinity of Rossland, about 8 miles west, and used to flow down the valley where highways 3B and 22 are now, thence through the centre of downtown Trail.
Having a creek that flooded every spring running through downtown got to be a bit of a nuisance, so several years ago, it was run underground, and straightened out a bit to minimize the amount of tunnel required. It now meets the Columbia a block or two north of where it did originally.
Parking Coordinates: N 49 5.845, W 117 42.497
Trailhead Coordinates: no trailhead, just walk to the river.
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