The webcam is mounted on a pole beside a weather station along Highway 3, on the north side, looking east. The weather station is all the stuff inside the chain link fence.
After a long road climb up the mountainside from the floor of the Okanagan Valley at
Osoyoos, just below and to the west, one reaches the Anarchist Plateau. Anarchist Mountain and the now extinct town of Sidley were both named after Richard G. Sidley, a settler from Ontario who arrived in 1885, was appointed the first postmaster of Sidley in 1895, and was later made Justice of the Peace and Customs Officer. Sidley's political views were unusual for his time. He was often called an anarchist, and this plateau became known locally as "the anarchist's mountain". Before Sidley, English speaking settlers called this summit Larch Tree Hill.
This webcam updates every 2 minutes. BC Highway webcams are owned and operated by the B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. They are accessible online at
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