Rare Recreational Opportunity Located near Manning Provincial Park - Eastgate, BC

Rarely do affordable 4-season recreational opportunities, such as this, come available in the highly desired community of Eastgate, BC. Located just a few minutes outside of Manning Park, and just a one-hour drive from Hope, this low-maintenance property is an idyllic investment for anyone looking for an easily accessible cabin in an area with unlimited recreational options.

The property is 0.23 acres and features a cozy 320 ft² "tiny house" cabin built in 2010, that will come fully furnished. This is the perfect option for anyone interested in weekend getaways where the focus is on being outside on the nearby ski hills or exploring the thousands of kilometres of surrounding hiking, biking, snowshoeing and cross-country ski trails that are. The cabin sleeps 4 and includes a double bed on the upper level, and a pullout sofa on the main floor.

In terms of recreational potential, this property will be hard to beat. Manning Park covers 84,000 hectares and occupies a large portion of land between Hope and Princeton. The terrain of the park includes most of the Hozameen Range, which includes wet coastal rainforests, alpine meadows, snow-capped peaks, river valleys and small lakes. The park contains hundreds of well-known hiking trails, as well as lakes/rivers for canoeing, kayaking, fishing, etc. For skiers, Manning Park Ski Area is a fantastic option and only a 25-minute drive from the property.

115 Lupine Road - Eastgate, BC

Notable Drive Times

Vancouver: 2 hours 30 minutes
Princeton 40 minutes
Hope: 1 hour
Penticton: 2 hours

The property is located off Highway 3 (Crowsnest Highway). Turn onto Towers Road, across from the Esso gas station, and then take a right onto Lupine Road. The property will be on your right.

E. C. Manning Provincial Park

Over 71,000 hectares of rugged forest-clad mountains, deep valleys, alpine meadows, lakes and rivers.

Manning Park Resort and EC Manning Provincial Park has your four seasons covered. With Alpine and Nordic skiing in the winter; snowshoeing and exploring in the spring; canoeing, camping, hiking and swimming in the summer; fishing, hiking (check out the larch trees on Mount Frosty) and boating during the fall—there is always a beautiful outdoor adventure waiting for you!

EC Manning Park is one of BC's finest and diverse outdoor destinations with over 1 million visitors annually. This park represents a transition zone between coastal rain forest and the semi-arid Okanagan. This transition zone includes towering cedars, alpine meadows, the northern Cascade Mountains, high alpine lakes, the Skagit and Similkameen River drainage basins, endangered and protected species, peak predators like grizzly and cougar and over 300 km of BC Parks maintained trails to enjoy it all by.

Manning Park Resort offers lodging with all the comforts of home and more. The Resort can accommodate over 450 people with a variety of rooming options. At the resort area is a hostel, a hotel with a variety of rooms, cabins and chalets.

The resort has continued to grow over the years and now offers an indoor heated pool with hot tubs, sauna, steam room, exercise room and showers. There are tennis courts, a basketball court, outdoor skating rink and multiple outdoor BBQ's and group fire rings. Windy Joe's, a private banquette hall, is available for functions as well as several other meeting rooms easily catered by kitchen staff. Dining is provided by the Pinewoods Restaurant and the Bears Den Pub, or find groceries and snacks-to-go at the Country Store.

Campers can choose between over 350 campsites, 3 group campgrounds and multiple back country campsites. Lightning Lake campground has newly renovated hot shower houses and over looks Lightning Lake. Boat rentals are available at the Lightning Lake Boat House and with no powered craft allowed, a peaceful canoe ride to the end of the lake is only interrupted by the occasional sound of loons calling.

Winter activities are still a major draw to the park. There are over 30 km of groomed Nordic trails, as well as extensive off-piste Nordic and snowshoe trails to take the adventurous on multi-day trips. Downhill skiing at Manning Park is like nothing the coastal mountains have to offer. Colder temperatures and more consistent weather reward those who visit with line after line of un-tracked and unforgettable snow. Powered RV sites located on hill provide the provinces only ski-in ski-out camping!

Within easy, scenic driving distance from the Greater Vancouver Regional District, Manning Park remains the most accessible and diverse outdoor destination in southwest British Columbia. Backcountry hikes or leisurely walks, tarps and tents or queen size beds, Manning Park has something for everyone.

Manning Park is about 1 km away, with lakes and hiking trails, horse trails, mountain biking trails, a ski hill, cross-country ski trails, snowshoeing and ice skating, and camping. The Similkameen River is a short walk and offers swimming, boating and fishing. Forest Service Roads provide access to the backcountry for ATVing and snowmobiling or hunting.

Long before fur traders and gold seekers arrived to exploit the country's resources First Nations people made the Similkameen Valley their home. The present Skyline Trail was a well-used travel route.

When the Oregon Treaty established a new international boundary between the United States and Canada and prevented the Hudson's Bay Company fur traders from continuing their use of the Columbia River as a transportation route, it was necessary for the traders to open up overland communications between the interior and the coast. The company commissioned Alexander C. Anderson to find a route over the Cascade Mountains, which he did with the assistance of First Nations guides creating a fur brigade route from east of Hope to the Tulameen River.

After gold was discovered along the Similkameen River and Rock Creek the major influx of fortune seekers created a need to keep goods and money flowing exclusively on the Canadian side of the border. Hence, in 1860, British Columbia's Governor Douglas commissioned the surveyor Edgar Dewdney and the Royal Engineers to build a pack trail that would be entirely on Canadian territory.

After one year, the Dewdney Trail was completed from Fort Hope to Rock Creek and became an invaluable transportation route for the next twenty years. Pack loads of provisions moved inland and the interior's riches in fur and gold were moved out. Today's Hope-Princeton Highway (Highway 3) closely follows the general direction of the Dewdney Trail.

By the 1890s the gold rush was over and the next wave of traffic came into the area, namely homesteaders and trappers, men and family who wanted to live off the land. Paul Johnson was the first white man to trap extensively in the Manning Park area and over the next three decades the trapping rights to this area were passed on to others.

The present day rights belong to the Hilton family, modern day pioneers of Manning Park. Joseph Hilton, one of the park's first Park Rangers, held it for the longest time and eventually passed it on to one of his grandsons who still maintains the trapping rights to this day.

The next phase of this history begins with the establishment of Manning Park. The Three Brothers Mountain Reserve was created in 1931 in order to save the alpine meadows from overgrazing by domestic sheep. Five years later the area was partially included in a new game reserve. Finally in 1941 the reserve was declared a Provincial Park and named "Ernest C. Manning Park" in memory of the then Provincial Chief Forester who had been killed in a plane crash. Manning was a dedicated conservationist who spent his life working for the preservation of the Canadian natural heritage. Because of his foresight in recognizing the recreational value of forested areas, all park lands came under the jurisdiction of the Forest Service. This northern Cascade park contains more than 71,300 hectares (176,000 acres).

Robert H. Boyd was the first Park Ranger. He and the dedicated rangers who followed him initiated the many projects that helped to form the park as it is today. When the Hope-Princeton Highway opened in 1949 it not only provided a major transportation link between the coast and interior it also made accessible to people everywhere, the premier provincial park in British Columbia.

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