Kidney Lake Recreation Site
Near Enderby, British Columbia, Canada
BRIDGE OUT
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 Kidney Lake
This is a small scenic timbered site that is popular for day use. The access is rough. There is a rough car top boat launch with an unmaintained dock at the lake and three rough sites, with two picnic tables and an outhouse in the campsite.
- Type
- Recreation site
- Campsites
- 3 campsites
- Upkeep
- User maintained (pack out what you bring in)
- Access
- Road: 4 Wheel Drive
- Nearest town
- Enderby, British Columbia
- District
- Columbia-Shuswap (Recreation Sites and Trails BC)
- Established
- 1993
- Location
- 50.76012, -118.62668
- Site ID
- REC1744
Activities
More activities are listed on the official page.
Facilities
Getting there
From Enderby
Follow Hwy 97 to Enderby. Continue to Ashton Creek and turn onto Enderby�Mabel Lake Road, then onto the Three Valley/Mabel Forest Service Road. Follow this road along the west side of Mabel Lake. At km 30.5, turn right onto Kidney Lake Permit Road. Travel 2.7 km and turn left. Continue 400 m on a rough access road. Inside the site, the road splits at a fork: left leads to the campsite, and right leads to the boat launch and lake access.
From Revelstoke
Travel west on Highway 1 past Three Valley Gap. Turn left onto the Wap Forest Service Road and drive 19 km. Turn right onto the Three Valley/Mabel Forest Service Road (also known as the Kingfisher FSR) and continue for 5.3 km. Turn right onto the Kidney Lake Permit Road. Travel 2.7 km and turn left. Continue 400 m on a rough access road.
CAUTION
These are active forest service roads with potential industrial traffic. Use caution when traveling.
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 Kidney Lake:
- Volunteer Park Hosts, Martha Creek, McDonald Creek and Blanket Creek Parks West Kootenay Park Management Inc. (BC Parks operator), 40 km away
- Campground Host, Lac Le Jeune Provincial Park Shuswap Adams Parks Ltd. (BC Parks operator), 134 km away
- Campground Host, Kootenay Lake Provincial Park RAP Park Contracting Ltd. (BC Parks operator), 141 km away
Nearby recreation sites
- Noisy Creek 6 km, 60 campsites
- Stoney Lake 8 km
- Holiday Lake 9 km, 1 campsite
- Napasis Creek 9 km
- Noreen Lake 10 km, 1 campsite
- Wap Lake West 12 km, 2 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.