Chehalis River (British Columbia)
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The Chehalis River is located in the southwest corner of British Columbia near the city of Vancouver, Canada. It flows south-eastward out of the Douglas Ranges of the Coast Mountains, draining into the Harrison River.
Though the river's valley is heavily logged—earlier in the 20th century the area was covered by a dense network of logging railways—the river itself flows through a modest yet picturesque canyon with the clearest water in the area. The Chehalis is a recognized fishing stream and, together with its tributaries such as Statlu Creek, offers tremendous opportunities for class III and IV whitewater recreation.
The river's canyon and the peaks and cliff-faces of the range encircling its basin, which comprises most of the area of the Douglas Ranges, is popular with rock-climbers and hikers, who call the area "the Chehalis". There is a small ski resort, Hemlock Valley, on the western side of the Chehalis River basin.
A road penetrates the northeast rim of the range into the Harrison Lake basin and on to historic Port Douglas, at the head of that lake, and beyond up the Lillooet River via Skookumchuck Hot Springs to Pemberton–Mount Currie. This road, named the Sasquatch Highway will be paved before the 2010 Winter Olympics to connect Hwy 7 (Lougheed Highway) at the community of Chehalis with Hwy 99 (the Sea-to-Sky Highway) at Mount Currie.
