| Heritage
Place | Millennium Park is
a well maintained interpretive park decorated with artifacts and
buildings representing the history of the region. The park is
a popular lunch hour picnic area with sitting benches located
in the heart of Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada.
A short walking path with interpretive
signs marks each exhibit in Heritage Place Park. From one end
to the other the walking path documents the early days of the
railway and mining industries and provides examples of the living
conditions of the early pioneers and First Nations people.
The Heritage Place Park walking path leads to such
exhibits as a pioneer cabin, a settler building, a log cabin,
a railway station and a pit house. The first European pioneers
to settle in the Ashcroft area were J.C. Barnes and F.W. Brink
in around the year of 1858. Prior to that, the First Nation people
lived off the land and lived in villages of teepees and pit houses.
The railway and mining industries is also well
represented in the park. A red railway car sits in the park, a
railway station and some working railway tracks operate from the
park. Off to the side is a railway mining car and a very large
mining truck.
The park is outfitted with many picnic tables,
sitting benches and washrooms. Each side of the park is a parking
lot. The main parking lot is paved, surrounded by murals and is
the location of the main washrooms.
How to
Get to Millennium | Heritage Place Park: Travel
Highway #97C south of Cache Creek, northwest of Logan Lake into
the community of Ashcroft, BC. From 1st Street in Ashcroft turn
down Railway Avenue to the park.
Contact information for
the local Ashcroft, BC accommodations, tours, guides, golf
courses, ski hills and attractions, realtors, etc. are posted
under the links listed to your right. >>> |
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