Kootenay Lake Provincial Park

Three separate sections: Davis Creek and Lost Ledge are on Highway 31 north of Kaslo — Lost Ledge 25 km, Davis Creek 30 km, about a 30-minute drive; Midge Creek is 38 km south of Balfour on the lake's southwest shore.

BC Parks’ own description opens by calling it “truly an undiscovered Kootenay gem,” naming fishing, paddling, hiking and biking among the things to do across the three sites. Source: BC Parks.

This site’s own park-notes file marks the park as having both a beach and a boat launch — accurate at a park level, even though the sections below tie the specific beach to Midge Creek and the specific launch to Lost Ledge.

Across all three, BC Parks’ feed lists 46 frontcountry sites, 20 of them reservable, and Wilderness camping, Frontcountry camping and Group camping as the park’s camping types. BC Parks’ own system shows this record was last changed 196 days ago, separately from the ten-minute reading this page’s own feed refreshes on. Source: BC Parks.

BC Parks’ advisory feed for this park also carries a standing notice that it welcomes volunteer hosts, unrelated to any of the three sites specifically. Source: BC Parks.

Kokanee Creek Park, this site’s other published park page, is a single contiguous property with one entrance; Kootenay Lake Park is the opposite — one protected-area record split across three places a visitor cannot walk between.

Access notes verified 2026-09-22 against the park’s own page.

BC Parks’ own description puts Davis Creek at 32 sites on the north-western shore, with lake-view and shaded sites. A recent rebuild, the description says, added 10 new waterfront sites in a loop it calls “Cove Loop,” upgraded the site’s drinking water system and improved beach access. Those new Cove Loop sites, per the same description, were added to the BC Parks reservation system and can be booked up to three months ahead; the description also mentions a group site for 15 to 50 people. Source: BC Parks.

This section is quoted and paraphrased from BC Parks’ own description field for the park, refreshed with the rest of this page every ten minutes. Source: BC Parks.

BC Parks’ own description puts Lost Ledge at 14 sites, 5 km south of Davis Creek along the same shore, with lake-view campsites. It is, the description says, popular with anglers and equipped with a concrete boat launch and parking for boat trailers, which matches "Boat launch" on BC Parks’ own facility list for the park. Elsewhere in its feed, BC Parks lists Canoeing, Fishing, Windsurfing and Kayaking among the park’s activities generally, all a fit for a site built around a boat launch. Source: BC Parks.

As with Davis Creek, the site count and boat-launch note above come from BC Parks’ own description field, not a separate structured field for Lost Ledge alone. Source: BC Parks.

BC Parks’ advisory feed for this park also carries a standing notice to clean, drain and dry all boats and equipment before launching, to stop the spread of aquatic invasive species — directly relevant at a boat-launch site like this one. Source: BC Parks.

Midge Creek, the park’s third site, sits on the lake’s opposite, southwest shore — see the distances above. BC Parks’ own description says it is reached only by water vessel, with anglers fishing for kokanee, Dolly Varden and rainbow trout, and more than a kilometre of sandy beach. The same description names Drewry Point, Lockhart Beach and Pilot Bay as the park’s neighbours elsewhere on the lake — this site’s camping page lists all 9 of BC Parks’ parks around Kootenay Lake, including those three. Source: BC Parks.

This site's own park-notes file marks the park as having a beach; the more-than-a-kilometre figure above, taken from BC Parks' live description, is the specific reading behind that flag.

BC Parks’ park-wide camping-type list includes Wilderness camping alongside Frontcountry and Group camping, but this page’s feed does not say which of the three sites each type applies to; boat-only Midge Creek reads as the likeliest fit for an undeveloped, wilderness-style stay, though that is this page’s inference, not a stated BC Parks fact. Source: BC Parks.

This page’s feed does not carry BC Parks’ nightly camping fees for this park, so it does not quote a dollar rate here. Reserve or check current fees at the BC Parks reservation system. Source: BC Parks.

BC Parks' feed marks this park as not requiring a day-use pass right now, so a day visit does not need the parking permit some other BC Parks day-use areas require; that can change, so check the park's own page before a visit. The gate season above is the park-wide reading from BC Parks’ own operating-dates record; this page’s feed does not carry a separate gate season for Davis Creek, Lost Ledge or Midge Creek individually. Source: BC Parks.

Of the Wilderness camping, Frontcountry camping and Group camping BC Parks lists for this park, frontcountry camping is the vehicle-accessible kind the site count above describes, and group camping is the single larger Davis Creek site, already described above, booked as a block rather than by individual site. Source: BC Parks.

BC Parks’ feed lists Picnic areas, Pit or flush toilets, Accessibility information, Boat launch, Campfires, Wi-Fi and Drinking water among this park’s facilities. Drinking water is on that list. A sani-dump or sani-station is not on that list — unlike Kokanee Creek Park, which does list one. Campfires are also on the list, which this page reads as fires being allowed where the park provides for them, though it carries no detail on fire rings, permits or any current ban beyond the campfire-ban status above. Source: BC Parks.

"Pets on leash" is one of the park's listed activities, so pets are allowed on a leash. BC Parks’ own facility list does not break out firewood sales as its own line, so this page does not state whether firewood is sold on site. Source: BC Parks.

Three more lines round out the feed’s facility list: “Picnic areas,” “Pit or flush toilets” and “Accessibility information,” the last meaning BC Parks publishes its own accessibility details for this park separately, which this page does not reproduce. None of the three says which of Davis Creek, Lost Ledge or Midge Creek it applies to, so treat every facility line above as park-wide, not site-by-site. Source: BC Parks.