Campbell Lake

Region

Thompson-Nicola

Management unit

MU 3-20

Species

Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout (last recorded 1957), Cutthroat Trout (last recorded 1911)The newest of these fish records is from 2023.Species from the province's fish observation records.

Lake size

Medium Lake (50 - 500 ha)

Coordinates

50.5593, -120.085792

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 Campbell Lake yet.

22.1 km of traced road to the campground by way of Moore-Richardson Rd, Campbell Meadows Rd, Campbell Range Rd and Robbins Range Rd. The road at the end is a rough surface.

Coordinates: 50.5593, -120.085792

Camping and rec sites at Campbell Lake

• Campbell Lake

  Campsites

  31 designated

  To the shore

  57 m

  
  Access: BR><BR>The site is located near Kamloops, southeast of Barnhartvale. Access to the site is via 2 wheel drive vehicles; however the road is narrow and windy in places, and suffers from wash boarding. Access to the site is off Highway 1, east of Kamloops. Travel along Barnhartvale Road until the intersection with Robins Range Road. Turn right onto Robins Range Road. Follow Robbins Range Road until the intersection with Campbell Range Road. Turn right onto Campbell Range Road. Follow Campbell Range Road until the intersection with Scuitto Lake Forest Service Road. Turn right onto the Scuitto Lake Forest Service Road. Travel approximately 12 km until to reach the Scuitto Lake Recreation Site. <BR>Stay on the main road and continue past the Scuitto Lake Recreation Site. The road parallels Scuitto Lake. Once past Scuitto Lake the road branches again. Take the right hand branch road and travel over the cattleguard and follow the road to another un-named intersection. Taking a left brings you to the entrance of the Campbell Lake Recreation Site.
  Coordinates: 50.551295, -120.097549

  The site on Recreation Sites and Trails BC

7 mdeepest

Campbell Lake runs to 7 m (23 ft) at its deepest.

The Province sounded Campbell Lake and published the depth chart surveyed in 1979.

• Depth chart (PDF)

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

In the model Campbell Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 5 November and 18 November, and ice-off between 23 April and 10 May. The median winter freezes on 10 November and opens on 30 April.

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

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 18 November 2024 to 10 April 2025, 143 days.

We have no ice fishing regulation on file for Campbell 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.

• Winter 2022-23Winterkill confirmedAn outcome reported the spring after. Winterkill Update: Spring 2023, Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.
• Winter 2025-26Rated low riskA rating from late-winter oxygen profiles, not a definitive result. Winterkill Update: Spring 2026, Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.

Averaged over a year, the air above Campbell Lake is 1.3 C warmer than it was in the 1960s. That is 66 years of daily readings, not a forecast.

• +1.3 Csince the 1960s
• 1.6 Caverage year now
• 0.3 Caverage year then
• -12 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Campbell Lake in the app

• Scuitto Lake 4 km away
• McGlashan Lake 6 km away
• Bleeker Lake 8 km away
• Tulip Lake 9 km away
• Ernest Lake 10 km away

All 342 lakes in the Thompson-Nicola, 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