Hale Creek is an unmarked forestry site located on the west side of Harrison Lake. It's a great camping site with excellent scenery, remoteness, camping right on the shore if you like and it's only about an hour or two away from the Lower Mainland. Hale is a fairly easy site to find and the trail is relatively easy, but can sometimes be "FUN" for a stock vehicle.
To get to Hale Creek, turn off of HWY.7 at the Sasquatch Inn (Harrison Mills) and onto the Morris Valley Rd. Follow this windy road (""about"" 10Km) until you reach the Weaver Creek Fish Hatchery ( you should now be on dirt road). This is now the West Harrison Forestry Service Road. This forestry road runs all the way up to Lillooet Lake and onto Pemberton if you have the time(weekend) to drive it, with lots of other trails and camping along the way (later). To get to the Hale site, just stay on the mainline, all the main intersections are usually marked. Once you reach Wood Lake Recreational Site(well marked) you're almost there. Go past Wood Lake, over the next logging bridge and take the next right onto the 1st trail head. This way in has moderate use but is tucked off to the side...it can easily be missed. You'll wind your way a couple of Km to a steep hill (4L) down to the lake. At the base you'll find an old logging shelter with fireplace (great for torrential downpour weekends, never get those around here!!!), and about three tabled sites. We usually prefer to drive on the beach on the right hand side of the bay, around the point and pick a spot, or continue through the creek and onto the other side. There is a second way into Hale and that's about a kilometre (or the following right) from the first turn off, but if you reach the turn off to Sunrise Lake (left side of forest road) you've gone to far. This way actually used to be a pretty good run with a few creek crossings and some good rock crawling, but the powers that be decided it needed a face lift a couple of years ago and cleaned it up. Although it did deteriorate a bit over the last winter........ Maybe in a couple of years!!!!!!!!!!
All in all Hale Creek is a beautiful spot to camp in, an area that offers a lot of good wheelin',, Sunrise Lake, Lookout Lake( good fishing as well) to name a few. It's only downfall, if your looking for solitude on a long weekend (good luck anyways), is that it can get pretty wild, but then everybody needs a good party once in a while.
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