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Railway Pass

Canada / British Columbia / Pemberton /
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Elevation 1,385 m (4,544 ft) Railroad Pass 1385 m (4544 ft), usually known locally as Railway Pass, is a mountain pass in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Traversed by a seasonal dirt road known as the Hurley Main and sometimes also referred to therefore as Hurley Pass, the pass connects the Pemberton Meadows area of the upper valley of the Lillooet River, via Railroad Creek, to the uppermost reaches of the Hurley River, the main south fork of the Bridge River which the Hurley joins at the settlement of Gold Bridge.

Railroad Pass gets its name from its potential as a possible route for a railway through the Coast Mountains although no formal record of such a survey exists.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Pass_(British_Columbia)
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Coordinates:   50°35'3"N   123°1'20"W

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  • Jim (guest)
    This is where BackCountry Snow Cats operate!
  • Skookum1 (guest)
    driving gloves? Sheesh, this road is nothing like it used to be; it's a gravel highway now by comparison to the old warzone track over boulders and through muck it used to be. Would add comments about proposed/promised paving but "no motion in the bureaucratic ocean" so just a pipedream for now; but a pipedream that's been around since pavement was punched through to Pemberton in the '60s.
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