Dickson Range

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Dickson Range
<div style="padding:2px 2px 5px 2px;> Location of Dickson Range
Highest point
Peak	Dickson Peak
Elevation	2,809 m (9,216 ft)
Coordinates	50°53′53.9″N 122°59′12.1″W / 50.898306°N 122.986694°W / 50.898306; -122.986694Coordinates: 50°53′53.9″N 122°59′12.1″W / 50.898306°N 122.986694°W / 50.898306; -122.986694
Dimensions
Area	302 km² (117 sq mi)
Geography
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Parent range	Chilcotin Ranges

The Dickson Range is a subrange of the Chilcotin Ranges subset of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwest-central British Columbia. It is located just west of the town of Gold Bridge between the valley of Slim Creek to the north (a tributary of Gun Creek) and Downton Lake Reservoir to the south. At its eastern foot is Gun Lake; its western limit is at a pass between Slim Creek and Nichols Creek (which feeds the upper Bridge River just before it enters Downton Lake) near the pass which separates the Bridge River basin from that of the Lord River, which feeds the Taseko Lakes.

The range is approximately 3,500 km² (1350 sq mi) in area and about 35 km in length. Its highest Peak, Dickson Peak (aka Mount Dickson), is 2809 m (9216 ft), is a stunning pyramidal peak towards the eastern end of the range, overlooking the middle Bridge River Valley to the east and also visible on the canyon road between Gold Bridge and Bralorne. The drop from Dickson's summit to Downton Lake is c.2075m (6775') in only 5 km (3.1 mi).

Just southeast of Dickson Peak is Mount Penrose 2634 m (8642 ft), which a cockscomb-like summit which stands immediately above Gun Lake and its resort community. Penrose was named for Republican Senator Boies Penrose (November 1, 1860–December 31, 1921) who climbed it in the 1920s while hunting with famed local big-game outfitter W.G. (Bill) Manson. Penrose was an avid outdoorsman and another mountain in the Flathead area of Montana also bears his name.

Penrose is the best-known summit in the Dickson after Dickson Peak, but farther east along the range are Scherle Peak 2677 m (8783 ft) and Tillworth Mountain 2631 m (8632 ft). A peak named Sorcerer 2602 m (8537 ft) occupies a separate ridge on the northwest end of the range, adjacent to the Leckie Range just north across Slim Creek.

To the north and northeast of the Dickson Range is the Spruce Lake Protected Area aka the "South Chilcotin", while to the northwest is Ts'il?os Provincial Park.

References

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Ranges	Adam Ashington Bastion Bare Top Bell Bendor Boundary Boundary Britannia Bunster Burnaby Burniston Cadwallader Calliope Camelsfoot Cantilever Caren Cape Chechidla Cheja Chilcotin Chismore Clendinning Colville Conical Countess of Dufferin Dezadeash Dickson Douglas Earle Edwards Fannin Fitzsimmons Florence Franklyn Fraser Garibaldi Gastineau Georgina Halleck Kakuhan Kitimat Kitlope Koeye Leckie Lewis Lillooet Lincoln Longview McBride Mission Murphy Namu Nicholl Niut North Shore Pacific Pantheon Peabody Pembroke Potato Richardson Rousseau Sawtooth Seward Sir Harry Snowslide Shulaps Spearhead Spiller Tantalus Tenaiko Tottenham Unwin Waddington Wharncliffe Whitemantle Williams Wimbledon

Mountains	Alfred Alice Arthur Birkenhead Bishop Blackcomb Blanshard Brandywine Brew Burke Castle Towers Chutine Cinder Clarke Coquitlam Crickmer Crown Currie Cypress Devils Paw Devils Thumb Dewdney Dipyramid Eagle Elsay Fang Fitzgerald Forefinger Frederick William Fromme Garibaldi Good Hope Grouse Helena Hoodoo Judge Howay Kates Needle Kinch Little Bear Little Finger Little Ring London Luna Meager Merlon Middle Finger Monarch Monmouth Munday Nicomen One Eye Overill Pali Powder Price Queen Bess Raleigh Robie Reid Serratus Seymour Silverthrone Skihist Somolenko Tantalus Taseko Tatlow Red Tusk Spearhead Tiedemann Vic Victoria Waddington Wedge Wellington

Passes	Cayoosh Chilkoot Griswold Heckman McGillivray Pemberton Railroad Taylor Tyoax Warner Wedge White Wolverine

Glaciers	Cambria Diamond Ha-Iltzuk Homathko Hoodoo Juneau Kingcome Klinaklini Misty Monarch Pashleth Pemberton Powder Mountain Salmon Silverthrone Spearhead Stikine Twin

Parks	Bear Glacier Big Creek Callaghan Lake Clendinning Duffey Lake Garibaldi Mount Elphinstone Stein Valley Nlaka'pamux Heritage Ts'il?os

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