Scuitto Lake

Region

Thompson-Nicola

Management unit

MU 3-20

Species

Rainbow TroutThe newest of these fish records is from 2011.Species from the province's fish observation records.

Lake size

Medium Lake (50 - 500 ha)

Coordinates

50.548969, -120.135948

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 Scuitto Lake yet.

14.2 km of traced road to the campground by way of Scuitto Lake FSR, Campbell Range Rd and Robbins Range Rd. The road at the end is a rough surface.

Coordinates: 50.548969, -120.135948

Camping and rec sites at Scuitto Lake

• Scuitto Lake

  Campsites

  14 designated

  To the shore

  10 m

  
  Access: 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 and turn right onto Robins Range Road. Follow Robbins Range Road until the intersection with Campbell Range Road and turn right onto Campbell Range Road. Follow Campbell Range Road until the intersection with Scuitto Lake Forest Service Road and turn right onto the Scuitto Lake Forest Service Road. Travel approximately 12 km until arriving at the Scuitto Lake Recreation Site.<BR><BR>Google Maps Directions can be found <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/dir//50.5542437,-120.1367883/@50.5526924,-120.1406583,17.07z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0" target="+blank">HERE</a>
  Coordinates: 50.55169, -120.137129

  The site on Recreation Sites and Trails BC

8.2 mdeepest

Scuitto Lake runs to 8.2 m (27 ft) at its deepest.

The Province sounded Scuitto 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 Scuitto Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 4 November and 17 November, and ice-off between 23 April and 13 May. The median winter freezes on 8 November and opens on 3 May.

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 6 April 2025, 139 days.

We have no ice fishing regulation on file for Scuitto 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 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 Scuitto Lake is 1.5 C warmer than it was in the 1960s. That is 66 years of daily readings, not a forecast.

• +1.5 Csince the 1960s
• 6.0 Caverage year now
• 4.5 Caverage year then
• -18 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Scuitto Lake in the app

• Campbell Lake 4 km away
• Bleeker Lake 6 km away
• Tulip Lake 7 km away
• McGlashan Lake 7 km away
• Horseshoe Lake 8 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