CampHostJobsCabin Lake
Near Merritt, British Columbia, Canada
Who runs this site
No operator is listed in BC government records. The site may be maintained by a government contractor or by its users.
About Cabin Lake
The recreation site is utilized for camping, landscape viewing, hiking the sub alpine nearby and snowmobiling. It is also a known local First Nations' cultural site used occasionally for small First Nations gatherings. Please no summer motorized recreation vehicles. Although the campsite is flat the access road in only allows for high centre 4 wheel drive trucks with campers or tents to use this site. Not suitable for any vehicle towing a house, tent or utility trailer.
- Type
- Cabin or shelter
- Campsites
- 3 campsites
- Upkeep
- User maintained (pack out what you bring in)
- Access
- Road: 4 Wheel Drive
- Nearest town
- Merritt, British Columbia
- District
- Cascades (Recreation Sites and Trails BC)
- Established
- 1995
- Location
- 49.97503, -121.22105
- Site ID
- REC4627
Activities
More activities are listed on the official page.
Facilities
Getting there
First of all the access to this site is for high centered 4 wheel drive vehicles only as the road gets extremly rough as you near the site with several small creek crossings and rocks on the road. From Merritt drive west along Highway 8 for about 20 km. Turn left (where the fish hatchery and snowmobile signs are and continue up this road for 24km's. At the 24km mark keep to the left, go a short distance and keep to the left again, cross the bridge and you are on the Miner Forest Service Road. From here on in there are no km markers so set you odometer to 0. Continue another 11.2 km then keep right and continue for 0.8 km.,turn right and drive for another 0.5 km. At this point turn left. You should be close to 2.3 km from when you set your oddmeter to 0. Continue on this road for about 5 km until you get to Cabin Lake and you will see why it was worth the rough drive.
Official page at Recreation Sites and Trails BC
Host jobs
Hosts at BC recreation sites are hired by the site operator. BC also recruits live-in fee-site operators by request for proposals on BC Bid.
Host jobs near Cabin Lake:
- Campground Host, Lac Le Jeune Provincial Park Shuswap Adams Parks Ltd. (BC Parks operator), 78 km away
- Park Host, Sasquatch / Chilliwack Lake / Birkenhead Lake Sea to Sky Park Services Ltd. (BC Parks operator), 78 km away
- Campground Host, Birkenhead Lake Provincial Park Sea to Sky Park Services Ltd. (BC Parks operator), 125 km away
Nearby recreation sites
- Lightning Lake 2 km, 4 campsites
- Silver Lake 4 km, 2 campsites
- Honeymoon Cabin 7 km
- Gillis Lake West 19 km, 5 campsites
- Lily Lake 21 km, 3 campsites
- Apocynum 24 km, 16 campsites
Information from Recreation Sites and Trails BC open data (BC Data Catalogue, Open Government Licence – British Columbia), retrieved 2026-10-09. Conditions change: check the official page before you travel. CampHostJobs is not affiliated with the Government of British Columbia.