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Hut Name
Watersprite Lake
Note: LOCKED hut
Plummer
Note: Open hut
North Creek
Note: Open hut
Mountain Lake
Note: Open hut
Booking Reservations required
$10/night per member
$20/night—per non-member
$40/night—per commercial person
Reservations not required
free—members
$10/night—per non-member
$20/night—per commercial person
Reservations required
free—members
$10/night—per non-member
$20/night—per commercial person
Reservations required
$10/night—per member
$20/night—per non-member
$40/night—per commercial person
Size 5 x 6.2 metres
Himmelsbach style
3 x 5 metres
Himmelsbach style
5 x 6.2 metres
Himmelsbach style
3.7 x 5 metres
Himmelsbach style
Sleeping Capacity
Loft: 10+2 custodians
Main: 0
Total: 12
Loft: 3
Main: 5
Total: 8
Loft: 10
Main: 0
Total: 10
Loft: 4
Main: 4
Total: 8
Maximum Beds 10 8 10 8
Location Watersprite Lake
South of Mamquam Mtn
Map: 92.G.10
WGS84: 074 087
Tatla Lake
Waddington Range
Map: 92.N.6
WGS84: 493 936
Pemberton
Sampson Range
Map: 92.J.11
WGS84: 835 103
Britannia Beach
Coastal Range
Map: 92.G.11
WGS84: 941 953
Altitude 1440 m 2680 m 1230 m 1630 m
GPS Route/Map
North Creek Cabin ski approach

Click the map link below

Mountain Lake trail map

Amenities
  • wood stove (except summer)
  • benches
  • tables
  • 2 burner white gas stove
  • propane lantern
  • benches
  • tables
  • 2 burner white gas stove
  • wood stove
  • 2 lanterns
  • benches
  • tables
  • propane heater (locked)
  • stools
  • tables

Propane heater instructions everyone must read. Do not assume you can get by without reading it.

Usual Access

Summer: Hiking access only from Skookum Creek trailhead at the dam at KM 20.

Winter: Winter trailhead is at KM 16. Parking at Skookum Creek power plant at KM 13.

Helicopter from Bluff Lake

Summer: North Creek logging road from Upper Lillooet Forest Service Road.

Winter: Helicopter from Pemberton.

Click the map link below.

Furry Creek access map

No vehicle access to trailhead. Access road is gated at Sea to Sky Highway. Access on foot or bicycle only.

Furry Creek FSR is the gated industrial road off Highway 99 at the top of the long hill north of Furry Creek. Access to Britannia FSR is not allowed under any circumstance. Consult the map.

Objectives Watersprite Lake
  • Claw Peaks
  • Dragon Tail Camp
  • Tellot & Tiedemann Glaciers
  • Winter: Skiing Sugus, Hemionus, Spindrift, Sessel
  • Summer: Sessel, Sugus, Peak 8600
  • Mt. Sheer
  • Ben Lomond
  • Sky Pilot Group
  • Sea to Sky gondola
Remarks Trail to hut and lake. Ten or more tent pads and camper's outhouse at lake. Remote, high mountainous terrain Not often used during summer.
Online article about North Creek Cabin.
Moderate terrain. Gated road.
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