Browne Lake Provincial Park
Provincial park in British Columbia, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browne Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located 22 km east-southeast of Kelowna in the Okanagan Highland, near Big White Ski Resort and between the heads of Hydraulic and Grouse Creeks.[2]
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Location | Central Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada |
Nearest city | Kelowna |
Coordinates | 49°49′30″N 119°11′15″W |
Area | 47 ha (120 acres) |
Established | 2004 |
Governing body | BC Parks |
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The park was established in 2004 by Order-in-Council, to protect the Interior Douglas-fir-Montane Spruce transition forest.[3]
Browne Lake Ecological Reserve, comprising 114 hectares, lies to its northwest, and had been established in 1973, to protect a wet meadow ecosystem and surrounding forest in the Interior Cedar Hemlock zone.[4]