Summit Lake Provincial Park, Nakusp

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Summit Lake Provincial Park is a small park with an outsized setting: 6 hectares in the Nakusp range of the Selkirks, on a clear mountain lake where rainbow and cutthroat rise and mountain goats watch from the rock above.

About 35 sites are listed, a mix of reservable and first come, first served, on paved access, with canoeing, swimming and a boat launch. Each year the park hosts a genuine spectacle, when thousands of toads leave the lake for the forest to hibernate.

The community of Summit Lake is 600 m away, but the nearest listed fuel is about 13 km, so top up around Nakusp. The Valhalla Hills nordic area sits about 8 km off.

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Where it is

50.1559, -117.6540

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11 of 35 sites are first-come, first-served. How first-come camping works

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Fire & air quality

Nearest fire 10 km · 0 ha

Fire ban in effect · Southeast

Air quality · Moderate (AQI 53)

Worst PM2.5 15.2 μg/m³, check local advisories

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Drive from Kelowna, BC

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drive (one-way)

256 km

drive time

4h 9m

round-trip

$116

61.5 L

Routed on real roads. Fuel at $1.882/L and 12.0 L/100km — a default. Create a free account to save your vehicle and get a real estimate.

Fuel price is Statistics Canada’s monthly average for July 2026, adjusted for B.C. motor fuel tax outside Metro Vancouver.

Around this site

Fuel 13 km· Carson's CornerTown 1 km· Summit LakeLake 7 km· Box LakeHot spring 40 km· Halfway Hot SpringsTrailhead 38 km· Whitewater Creek Trailhead

Nearby day-use attractions (3)

Valhalla Hills Nordic8.2 km

Shannon Lake11.2 km

Kimbol Lake13.5 km

Nearby MTB (1)

Arrow Slocan~29 km