Boar Lake

Region

Cariboo

Management unit

MU 5-2

Species

Rainbow Trout, Lake Chub (last recorded 1982)The newest of these fish records is from 2025.Species from the province's fish observation records.

Lake size

Small Water (< 50 ha)

Coordinates

51.53662, -121.651021

A year is when the Province last recorded the fish here, not a statement that it is caught today.

We have no lake specific regulations on file for Boar Lake yet.

48.4 km of traced road to the campground by way of Gustafsen/Neilson FSR, Gustafsen Lake FSR, Gustafsen/North FSR, unsigned, Helena Lake Rd and Tatton Station Rd. The road at the end is a rough surface. It stops 200 m short of the campground.

Coordinates: 51.53662, -121.651021

Camping and rec sites at Boar Lake

• Boar Lake

  Campsites

  3 designated

  To the shore

  74 m

  
  Access: From 100 Mile House, turn west onto Exeter Station road and follow this road through the industrial part of town, cross the railway tracks and keep left. Continue on this road to the end of the pavement, and then continue on the gravel 1100 Road for about 20 km and turn left onto the 1000 Road (Gustafsen South FSR). From here, travel about 12 km to the 10-32 km marker and turn left/east onto the access road. Travel for approximately 0.8 km and turn right, just before reaching the Whale Lake Rec Site. Continue another 6 km via extremely rough 4x4 trail to the Boar Lake Recreation Site. The access road is extremely rough, so four wheel drive and patience are highly recommended. The site is not suitable for trailers or motorhomes.
  Coordinates: 51.537337, -121.656498

  The site on Recreation Sites and Trails BC

13 mdeepest4.5 mmean

Boar Lake runs to 13 m (43 ft) at its deepest, by the Province survey, 1984.

The mean of 4.5 m (15 ft) is read off the same chart, surveyed in January 1984.

The Province sounded Boar Lake and published the depth chart surveyed in 1984.

• Depth chart (PDF)

Modelled from air temperature, not an ice report. It says nothing about whether ice will hold you.

In the model Boar Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 31 October and 13 November, and ice-off between 24 April and 12 May. The median winter freezes on 6 November and opens on 4 May.

the middle half of modelled winters the median ice cover in the median winter

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 14 November 2024 to 24 April 2025, 161 days.

We have no ice fishing regulation on file for Boar Lake either way. Check the current BC Freshwater Fishing Regulations Synopsis before you plan a trip.

Whether a lake is open to ice fishing says nothing about whether its ice will hold you. Ice conditions vary year to year and across a single lake. Check locally before going out, every time.

Averaged over a year, the air above Boar Lake is 1.0 C warmer than it was in the 1960s. That is 66 years of daily readings, not a forecast.

• +1.0 Csince the 1960s
• 3.8 Caverage year now
• 2.8 Caverage year then
• -8 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Boar Lake in the app

• Whale Lake 2 km away
• Gustafsen Lake 5 km away
• Snag Lake 14 km away
• Valentine Lake 15 km away
• Edmund Lake 19 km away

All 328 lakes in the Cariboo, with today's conditions on each.

• How the score works
• Depth, and where the trout are
• A year on a trout lake
• Fishing chironomids
• Reading a depth chart
• Trout and char of BC lakes
• Camping at rec site lakes
• Winterkill explained
• When the ice goes off