Roxey Creek FSR - "Slim Creek 28-724-03 Spur"
Cascades Natural Resource District
Wildlife Act - Vehicle Restrictions
This road may be affected by a motor vehicle prohibition zone from June 1 to November 30.Consult the regulations map for exemptions and further details: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/sports-recreation-arts-and-culture/outdoor-recreation/motor-vehicle-prohibitions/region-3/schedule-1/mvpr_1_2_spruce_lake.pdf.
Road Details
Location | Downton Creek |
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Length | 4.90km |
Condition |
0.0km to 4.9 km | Somewhat Degraded 61d ago |
Owner | Aspen Planers Ltd. |
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Award Date | Jan 01, 1993 |
Closures | No Posted Closures |
Waypoints | Download GPX |
Road Description
No description.
Road Bulletins
There's a somewhat deep and very short and gnarly waterbar right where the road takes off from Slim Creek FSR. For the next 3 kilometers are numerous waterbars and although they are quite deep, they are thankfully very long. The last 2 KMs to the Dickson Peak "trailhead" are very rough and rocky, but likely doable in any stock 4x4. AWD SUVs and sedans would likely bottom out and struggle on this section due to how rocky it is. Both crossings of Roxey Creek have brand new culverts installed as the mine further up the road is either active or at least was very recently active. Bring a chainsaw for the last two KMs as there may be downed trees due to the fire that ripped through here in 2023. There were many deadfalls down along this section though they thankfully had already been cleared, though with many burnt, dead trees still standing above the road, they could come down anytime
This area has been heavily burned out from the Gun Creek Fire last year and the start of the road is quite degraded. I only drove up to the closure sign 50m up. I'm not sure if this sign was there before, but thought I'd share in case anyone is planning to access Dickson Peak.
This road continues further than shown on some mapping apps, we were able to drive all the way to within ~100m of the cabin (Dickson Peak trailhead). After the recent logging ends the road became steep, a bit rocky, couple of snowpatches, lots of crossditches, one tree that required chainsawing - but the creeks mentioned in Steven Song's TR had fresh culverts installed & the roadbed has been reworked. HC 4x4 recommended, otherwise you can park where the logging currently ends, just a bunch of deep but wide crossditches to this point. The area between the current logged boundary and the cabin is likely going to be logged soon, loggers don't spend $$s on shiny new culverts for nothing.