From left: Matt LeBourdais – Likely Xats’ull Community Forest Ltd, Lisa Kraus – Likely Community Coordinator, Maureen LeBourdais – Director, Area ‘F’ Cariboo Regional District, and Darron Campbell – Manager of Community Services, Cariboo Regional District cut the banner to officially open the Bullion Pit low-mobility trail.Photo Courtesy: Cariboo Regional District
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Bullion Pit trail marks CRD’s 25th accessible trail in network

Sep 30, 2020 | 7:00 AM

WILLIAMS LAKE—The Cariboo Regional District’s newest low-mobility wilderness trail has officially opened.

The Bullion Pit trail, at the Bullion Pit historic site near Likely, B.C., is suitable for those in wheelchairs, mobility scooters, and walkers with mobility issues and child strollers as well.

“More than ever, we need places for people to get outside and enjoy the benefits of being in nature.”—Maureen LeBourdais, Director Area ‘F’, Cariboo Regional District

The trail was funded in part by the Province’s Rural Dividend fund, and was a cooperative effort between the regional district, Northern Development Initiative Trust, Likely Chamber of Commerce, and Likely Xats’ull Community Forest Ltd.

The Bullion Pit low mobility trail is located at the Bullion Pit historic site, five kilometres west of the town of Likely, BC, and increases the Cariboo Regional District’s accessible trail network to 25 locations. The expansion of the low mobility trails network strengthens a niche tourism market in the regional district, catering to an under-served market (visitors with mobility challenges). Those efforts are paying off.