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Popular Things To Do | Other Things To Do Tips | All Tips (13) Built in 1914 by the C.P.R. Five tunnels were dug simultaneously, an engineering feat. Engineer Andrew McCulloch designed the tunnels as a unique way to get through the Coquihalla gorge where the river had cut a 300-foot deep channel in a wall of solid granite. The tunnels took five years to build and were completed in 1916 to finish the Kettle Valley Railway. The location was used for
filming several major motion pictures, including First Blood (Rambo), Shoot To Kill and most recently Far from Home: Adventures of Yellow Dog. Hiking trails, parks, and lakes dot the area, and flashlights are recommended for inside the tunnels. Leave a Comment Address: Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park near Hope
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Hope is located 150 km east of Vancouver, and is at the junction of the Trans-Canada Highway (\#1) Crowsnest Highway (#3), the Coquihalla (#5) and the Lougheed Highway (#7).
The city has a magnificent setting on the banks of the Fraser River with the Cascade Mountains forming a natural amphitheatre behind it. Hope is known as “the Chainsaw Carving Capital” and offers walking tours to sites of 20 giant wooden sculptures, all carved by local artist Peter Ryan.
Don't miss the Othello Quintette Tunnels. One of the world’s greatest engineering feats, this series of tunnels was blasted for the now defunct Kettle Valley Railway. You can walk through these tunnels, where the Rambo-series movie First Blood was filmed, and over the two bridges that span the spectacular Coquihalla Gorge. Leave a Comment Directions: Located 150 km east of Vancouver. A 25-minute drive east from Harrison Hot Springs.
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This chainsaw carving by Pete Ryan was carved in l993. Leave a Comment Address: around the town
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This chainsaw carving of the great bear, was the first in Hope's collection of chainsaw carvings, and can be viewed on Wallace Street. by the Memorial Gardens. Leave a Comment Address: Wallace Street. Hope.
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Yes there are a lot of them around Hope.
There is a story to this carving, it is of "chip" an R.C.M.P. service dog, who was killed in the line of duty near Hope, British Columbia, on September 13th ;l996, while protecting his partner and friend Cst. Doug Lewis.
The carving has the above inscription on it.
Carver - Peter Ryan.
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Famous Hell's Gate, in the scenic Fraser Canyon, is nature at its most magnificent. Descending smoothly from highway level in one of our two comfortable 25-passenger cabins, you'll experience a breathtaking flight directly above the unique Hell's Gate fishways, where two million sockeye salmon challenge the river each year on their epic journey to their inland spawning grounds.
At the lower terminal, after a 502 foot (152m) descent across the canyon, there are observation points to view the mighty Fraser River, where at peak level, 200 million gallons of water per minute leap and surge through the 110-foot-wide (35m) gorge.
Learn about early explorer Simon Fraser & view the award winning video: "Run Sockeye, Run". Open daily March 28 to October 20, 2002. Leave a Comment Phone: (604) 867-9277Directions: Located in Scenic Fraser Canyon near Boston Bar, just 52 kms north of Hope.Website: www.hellsgateairtram.com
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If you have time, don't forget to go here, it is just 5 kms. away away from Hope. Leave a Comment
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When you are in Hope don't miss the view on the Fraser river on Water Avenue. Leave a Comment
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