LARDEAU GROUP

The wilderness of the Lardeau Group is bounded by Upper Arrow Lake on the west, on the northeast by Beaton Creek, Trout Lake and Lardeau River, and on the south by Kuskanax and Poplar Creeks.
Only in the southeast do peaks cluster in this large area; the rest is mostly forest and peaks not exceeding 2600 meters. It is seldom visited now, but many summits were probably climbed by prospectors during the turn of the century.

Maps – 82K/6 Poplar Creek, 82K/12 Beaton, and 82K/1l Trout Lake, 82K/5 St. Leon Creek; B. C. Provincial maps, Beaton and Nakusp; BC Forests brochure, Arrow and Kootenay Lake Forest Districts

Goat Range Provincial Park. This  park extends over much of the Lardeau and Goat Groups, south from Mobbs Creek to Whitewater Mountain. It serves partly as a conservancy for the grizzly bear, and the roads and trails into the park will be allowed to deteriorate

Access Consult the B. C. Forests brochure for old trails up Mobbs, Tenderfoot and Rapid Creeks (all now overgrown) and some roads. There is a road up the north side of Poplar Creek (overgrown, 2015) on the group’s southern border toward Spyglass Mountain. (See mileage table in the beginning of the Badshot Group.) The Kuskanax Creek FSR north of Nakusp from the west goes toward Tenderfoot Mountain.