History

We are pleased to invite you to this unique, lovely & peaceful setting that we are proud to own and care for.

Lillooet Lake Lodge dates back to approximately 1950, when the first two cabins and the Main House were built by George and Pat Richardson. The place was then called 'Twin Creek Point'.

In those early years, Cabin 3 was the garage for George and Pat's Land Rover, Cabin 5 a wood shed and Cabin 4 a shelter for the trailer, where George and Pat used to dwell before the Main House was built.  The current rustic shower and sauna building also partially dates back to those times.

The In-Shuck-ch Forest Service Road did not exist yet the way we know it nowadays, but was a simple trail. 

Jacob came upon this place by incident in 1986 (on a camping trip).  The place happened to be for sale (was a lease then), and he eventually purchased the lease.

He transformed the garage (now Cabin 3) into an actual cabin, the wood shed (now Cabin 5) into a community room and set the beginnings for turning the trailer (now Cabin 4) into a Cabin as well. 10 campsites were also established.

In 1995 Jacob (who is of Dutch origin) met Elisabeth (who is of Austrian origin) on one of his trips to Europe, and the two decided to give it a try pulling off running the property together (which was anything but easy at the beginning...!)

Elisabeth made the big jump over the ocean and - last but not least - they got married in 1998.

Cabin 5 was created by transforming the community room which had started it's life as a woodshed.  Cabin 4 was finished off, the office was built, the shower converted from wood heat to propane heat. A small water turbine to create a basic amount of electricity was put in (there was no electricity until then), water pipes laid underground from the water falls to the dwellings, and in fall 2003 we got our big turbine rolling, which now supplies all our cabins and the Main House with electricity and heat!

We are blessed to live here and are basically open all year round. The winters are (with a few exceptions) rather mild and we don't get a lot of snow up here. We do have a nice amount of snow around Christmas and New Year, just as needed!

July, August and September are usually hot and dry (we do have a few mosquitoes around for part of July) and the Lake offers plenty of opportunities for boating, kayaking,canoeing and swimming. There are beautiful water falls just a few hundred meters away, as well as hot springs and a few walking trails down the road. For hikers, Joffre Lakes Provincial Park, up the Duffy Lake Road is a must to explore.

We also get plenty of wild life visiting, many different kinds of birds, squirrels, chipmunks, herons, river otters, beavers, and up the mountain one may expect black bears, bob cats, lynxes, cougars, and even wolverines.

Lillooet Lake is approximately 450" deep at its deepest point and does not freeze over in winter.