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Current Map of Silver Star Provincial Park
To view a current map of Silver Star Provincial Park, click the map icon below.
You may want to right-click on the map and rotate the view clockwise to orient the map correctly. Large sections of the park have been deleted over the years, starting in 1982, with the resort village area. For a summary of these deletions, see the Park History page, or watch the introductory video.
Note that the park has been fractured into two pieces, the West and East sites, which comprise a combined total area of 5573 hectares. The 2001 deletion of the 510 hectares in the southeast corner of the park split the park in two, essentially cutting off public access to the east half of the park.
The large chunk missing out of the middle is no longer parkland, but rather is a Controlled Recreation Area. It is interesting to note that the only part of the park that sees much public use is the Sovereign Lake trail system and the snowmobile trails in the West Site, comprising only about 1200 hectares.
The west side of the park is actually a watershed area for the City of Armstrong and the Municipality of Spallumcheen. Silver Star Lakes and Fortune Lake are dammed reservoirs west of the Sovereign Lake trails system that feed into the Fortune Creek drainage.
Map Showing Original Size of Silver Star Provincial Park
To view a map of Silver Star Provincial Park Pre-1982, click the icon below.
If you look closely at the map above, you'll see the original cabins in the cabin colony, and also dotted lines depicting the Summit Chairlift, the Blue Chairlift, Yellow Chairlift, Mid-Tee, and Summit Poma. You'll also notice that no lifts are shown in the Putnam Creek area, as the Putnam Creek chairlift (since replaced with the Powder Gulch chair and Home Run T-bar) was not installed until 1991.
From 1976 to 1989, Silver Star Provincial Park was classified as a Recreation Area. It was reclassified to Class A in 1989. For definitions of the various park classifications, click here.
Map of Silver Star Provincial Park - 1982 to 1992
To view a map of Silver Star Provincial Park showing the village area deletion (deleted in December, 1982), click the map icon below.
The map above was scanned from a 1984 version of a 1:100,000 topographic map, and so doesn't show a lot of detail. You can, however, see the 188 hectare village area deletion, depicted by a black dotted line surrounded by a pink band.
Map of Silver Star Provincial Park - 1992 - 2001
Silver Star Provincial Park was reclassified from Recreation Area to Class A park on March 21st, 1989. One would think that this would afford the park a higher degree of protection, when in fact this decision quickly led to a large portion of the park being deleted. Only 2 months after being designated Class A, B.C. Parks hosted a public open house at the Schubert Center in Vernon, B.C., allowing the public to comment on a new draft Master Plan for the park, which included deleting the entire ski area from the park. B.C. Parks also recommended deleting not only the ski area, but all the lands east and south of the ski area. To view the boundary amendments proposed by B.C. Parks in 1989, click the icon below.
The proposed boundary amendments were officially ratified by an Order in Council in the B.C. Legislature on December 7th, 1992 with some minor modifications. The lands to the east of the ski resort which were cut off by the deletion of the ski area were not deleted at this stage. To view a map of the park after the deletion of the ski area, click the icon below.
You may want to right click and rotate the view several times until it is oriented correctly. This map was scanned from a copy of a current map, and was manually marked up to highlight the general outline of the park before the golf course lands were deleted in 2001.
You can see from the various maps shown on this page, that the ski resort tried several times to have the entire east half of the park deleted and made part of their Controlled Recreation Area.
When the 510 hectare parcel in the southeast corner of the park was finally deleted in April, 2001 for the golf course, the park was split into two pieces as shown in the map at the top of this page. The 580 hectare East Site is for all practical puposes inaccessible to the public, and sees little or no public use. Its presence does however preserve wildlife habitat and also protects the area from commercial logging.
