Marble Range Provincial Park was established in 1995 and then in 2013 additional lands were added.   Before it was a park the mountains were used for hunting, hiking, snowmobiling, mining, guiding, and ranching.  The northern end of the Mable Range is at the Big Bar Lake Road on the edge of the Cariboo Plateau.    the southern end of the range is by Pavilion Lake, but the park’s southern edge is the Kelly Lake Road.   The main access road to the Marble Range is the Jesmond Road, 16 km west of Clinton.

The mountains of the park are karst topography, grey limestone summits in a rugged wilderness setting.

The hiking trails of Marble Range Provincial Park are unsigned and unmaintained, but users keep the trails open ad there are some trail markings and blazes here and there.   Some of the best hiking in the Interior is found within the park, but the summits are remote, rugged, steep, and demanding.   One trail is really a double track to the top – the Jesmond Lookout – but the rest are single tracks requiring some route-finding.   Access is usually up a creek valley. .   A number of articles are found on this website.

Marble Range Hikes (use the Search Bar):

• Porcupine Ridge
• Lime Ridge
• Mad Dog Mountain
• Mt. Bowman
• Wild Horse Ridge
• Mt. Kerr
• Jesmond Lookout
• Marble Range Provincial Park

Mt. Bowman is the best introductory trail to the Marble Range, but the trailhead is a bit hard to locate.   The map shows access from the Jesmond Road, but this is now private property.   We drive a side road to the power line then hiked in.   This is the same trailhead for Wild Horse Ridge and Mt. Kerr.

Quads and snowmobiles motor to the top of the Jesmond Lookout but hikers can choose to hike all the way to the top and back.

We hope to continue our exploration of the Marble Range.   There is a long series of ridges that bear northeast from the Wild Horse Ridge Trail.   It would appear that we can bushwhack/traverse from the Jesmond Lookout Trail over to Jesmond Peak.    There is more exploration on the Lime Ridge – Porcupine Peak alpine ridges.   We will complete these, then will return to hike trails again.