Hit the Trail
Expiration: Jun 1st 2025
Hello outdoor enthusiasts!
With towering trees and open trails, Prince George is the place to be. With more than 100 km of trails around the city, come forest bathe and stroll through nature. As you rack up the kilometres we have some milestone prizes to keep you motivated. Check in to 10 trails across the city, and win a water bottle and drawstring bag. Check into 20 and we will plant a tree in your honour during tourism week.
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Ancient Forest/Chun T'oh Whudujut Provincial Park
The Ancient Forest Trail provides an opportunity to view enormous ancient cedar trees within BC's inland rainforest. The trail is an easy-moderate hike marked with interpretative signage, and is home to a beautiful waterfall. A 400m portion of the trail is a universal access boardwalk. In 2016, the Ancient Forest was designated as a Class A Provincial Park and given an additional name Chun T’oh Whudujut.
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Casino & Cemetery Trails
This trail system is 3.6km and is paved throughout. The trail has multiple starting points that include: Cowart Rd, Lansdowne Rd, and Ferry Avenue. People with mobility devices, strollers and visual impairments will find this trail accessible.
Centennial Connector Trail Loop
Trail is a 30km loop that allows on-leash pets, and has an elevation gain of 120 meters on Tyner Blvd. The trail is paved and dirt in some locations, making this trail fairly accessible. The trail offers multiple entry points at Lheidli T'enneh, Moore's Meadow, and Massey Drive.
College Heights Trail System
This is a pet friendly (on-leash) trail that has many access points. These include Fairmont Cres, Gladstone Cres, and North College Park; within these points there are baseball diamonds, playgrounds, and benches for visitors to enjoy. Portions of the system from across Polaris Montessori School to Jean De Bebreuf Park are also paved which gives access to visitors with mobility issues during the summer months.
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Connaught Hill
This park is a 3km loop and has a 45 meter climb and descent, and is not pet friendly. Because of the steep ascent, most visitors drive average passenger vehicles to reach the top, which allows them to take in a 360 degree view of the city from the crest of Connaught Hill.
Cottonwood Island Nature Park
This park is 32-hectares and has 2.2km of trail, with interpretive signage and tree bark carvings throughout the park. The park is dog friendly (On-leash only), and most of the trail is mobility friendly.
Cranbrook Hill Greenway
This greenway is over 23km and connects UNBC, Parkridge Creek, and Otway Nordic Ski Center. People with mobility issues and devices may find this trail inaccessible due to some steep areas, weather-dependent trail conditions, and no accessible restrooms.
David Douglas Botanical Garden
Located up at UNBC, this garden showcases plants and flowers native to Northern BC. People with visual impairments, mobility issues, and those who use mobility devices will find that this garden is mostly accessible.
Eskers Provincial Park
Eskers Provincial Park is a day-use park located 40 km northwest of Prince George. Encompassing 3,979 hectares of gently rolling terrain and many small lakes, the park conserves a portion of the 40 km long Stuart River Eskers Complex. These unique land forms, for which the park is named, are long sinuous gravel ridges. They were created when sand and gravel were deposited in the meltwater channels of ancient glaciers that once blanketed this northern region.
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Ferguson Lake Nature Reserve
Ferguson Lake is a 2.5km loop and is on-leash dog friendly. People with mobility devices and mobility issues may find this park to be accessible but some others may not due to weather-dependent trail conditions and exposed tree roots in some sections.
Forests For the World
This trail system is 15.2km and has multiple information signs throughout about the local wildlife, plants and history. People with mobility devices and visual impairments may find this trail difficult to traverse in some areas due to gates, rocks, and trail conditions. The system, however, does have an accessible outhouse available.
Fort George Canyon Provincial Park
This small 178 hectare park consists of two parcels on either side of the Fraser River south of the city of Prince George. Public recreation opportunities and trail access is available on the west side of the river. Up until 1914 the Fraser River was the highway in and out of this part of British Columbia and Fort George Canyon was one of the obstacles that sternwheelers had to navigate. Rapid and dangerous, this canyon abounds in whirlpools and massive, jagged rocks close to the surface.
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Fraser River Benchlands Park
This trail is in College Heights and is located along the Fraser River, connecting to Latrobe Park. People with mobility devices and visual impairments may find this trail inaccessible due to overgrown and narrow sections, as well as exposed tree roots.
Ginter's Meadow
This city park allows dogs to be off-leash in the meadow and on-leash along the trails. Ginters is an accessible park, but the way up to the homestead is steep.
Good Sir Nature Park
Admission By Donation. Park developer Jim Good spent his life studying native plant life. In later years he travelled throughout Canada coast to coast finding, recording, pressing and photographing thousands of plant species. Now retired he shares his life stories and success with the public.
Great West Life Mobility Park
Great West Life Mobility Nature Trail is 450m long and was designed with accessibility in mind, offering accessible trails, campsites, pit toilets, and picnic area.
Heritage River Trail System
This trail system is 9.2km, or an 11km loop, and is pet friendly (On-leash only). Some people with mobility issues may have some issues in a few spots along the way. The trail connects at multiple locations such as: Cottonwood Island Nature Park, Lheidli T'enneh, Hudson's Bay Wetland, and Carrie Jane Gray Park.
Hudson's Bay Wetland
This wetland trail system is 0.8km and people with mobility issues may find this park inaccessible to due to slopes, weather-dependent trail conditions, and tree roots. Hudson's Bay Wetland is filled with flora, wildlife and bird, has interpretive signage throughout, and observation decks with beautiful views.
LC Gunn Park
LC Gunn Park is 3.9km long and meanders along the bluffs above the Fraser River, offering multiple viewpoints. People with strollers or mobility issues may find this trail inaccessible at some points due to trail conditions, slopes, and roots.
Lheidli T'enneh Park Loop
Lheidli T'enneh park loop is 4.2km and is on-leash dog friendly only along the paved Heritage River Trail adjacent to the river. People with visual impairments, mobility devices, and mobility issues may find this park accessible, but others may not due to exposed roots, hills, and a few curb let downs in some sections.
McMillan Creek Fishing Park
This Regional Park trail is 2.3km and gives users a scenic view of the city. If you want something flatter, try the 1km trail that brings visitors straight to the lookout. People with mobility devices and visual impairment may find sections of this trail inaccessible due to trail conditions and narrow pathways.
Moore's Meadow Nature Park
Moore's Meadow is 9.5km and offers a variety of entry points. The meadow portion is an off-leash area, but for the rest dogs must be on-leash. People with mobility devices may find this park inaccessible due to slopes, path conditions, exposed roots and a non-impairment friendly pit toilet.
Nechako Riverside Park
This city park is closed during the winter, but during the summer it offers picnic tables, pit toilets, and a canoe launch. This park was designed to be accessible and the descent to the riverside features switchbacks, so everyone can enjoy it.
Pidherny Recreation Site
The facilities at this location are rustic and volunteer maintained, no garbage or recycling cans are provided. Please pack out your garbage and scoop your dog's droppings to ensure a pleasant experience for all users. This is a unique multi-tenure, forest recreation area that recognizes, collaborates, supports and honors current tenure holders rights' and obligations. It offers an extensive multi-use trail system, focusing primarily on mountain biking. We have a Partnership Agreement with the Prince George Cycling Club to assist with the development and maintenance of mountain biking trails and facilities.
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Rainbow Park
This park is not pet friendly and also people with mobility issues may find this park inaccessible. This park features a disc golf course for visitors to enjoy. The trails within the park have a length of 2km total.
Ridgeview Trail
Ridgeview Trail is 3.5km and takes visitors through suburbia and forested areas. Some people with mobility issues, visual impairments and mobility device users may find this trail inaccessible due to slopes, narrow trail width, and trail conditions.
Tabor Mountain Recreation Trails
Tabor Recreation trails offers 407km of trails for motorized and non-motorized activities. Some may find the trail systems accessible, but others may not due to trail conditions, slopes, and exposed roots.
UNBC Connector Trail System
This trail system is 11.5km, and offers informative signage, viewpoints, and provides an off-leash area for dogs at Ginter's Meadow. People with mobility issues and mobility devices may find this trail inaccessible due to steep sections, stairs, and weather-dependent trail conditions.
Wilkins Regional Park
Wilkins Park is open May 1st-October 31st, and has a wood-burning stove, picnic area, grassy lawn, pit toilets, fire pits and a boat launch. The park also offers a network of trails and a view of the Nechako River.
Wilson Park
Wilson Park is equipped with an accessible washroom near the parking lot and a 20-metre accessible trail. This trail may be difficult for some people