South Caribou Lake

Region

Kootenays

Management unit

MU 4-32

Species

Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout (last recorded 1946)The newest of these fish records is from 2026.Species from the province's fish observation records.

Lake size

Small Water (< 50 ha)

Coordinates

50.219505, -118.032321

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 South Caribou Lake yet.

53.0 km of traced road to the campground by way of S Fife One FSR, Keefer Lake Rd, Kettle River Bridge and unsigned. The road at the end is a loose surface.

Coordinates: 50.219505, -118.032321

Camping and rec sites at South Caribou Lake

• Caribou Lake

  Campsites

  3 designated

  To the shore

  38 m

  
  Access: Access from Arrow Park Ferry: At the ferry terminus set your odometer. Your odometer readings will not conform to the km signs on the road. From the ferry terminus travel straight ahead on the "Lower Mosquito Road". Continue up this road for 6 km. Just after crossing the bridge over Arrow Park (Mosquito) Creek, turn right onto the "Branch 20" road. Follow this road for 3 km. At the junction with the "West Mosquito Road" continue straight ahead. Travel north on the "West Mosquito Road" for 5 km, to the "16 km" road marker. At this junction, turn left onto the road marked "Caribou Lake". Continue up this rough dirt road for 8 km. There will be a log cabin on your right. Continue straight ahead (left) to Caribou Lake. There will be 2 more forks in the next 2.3 km, at both these, stay right. You will soon see Caribou Lake on your right. The road to Caribou Lake is marked with a brown 4x4 post with white lettering. Access from the Needles Ferry: From the Needles Rest Area at the ferry terminus, travel west on Highway 6 for 4.4 km. Turn right onto the "Whatshan Lake Road". Set your odometer. At 1.6 km turn right onto the "Whatshan Forest Service Road" also signed as the "Whatshan Access Road Revelstoke Arrow Park". At 2.5 km stay left. From here on, you will be following the east shore of Whatshan Lake for another 21.6 km to the junction with the "Stevens Road". Stay left at the junction at 14.1 km. At 15.7 km continue straight ahead. "Branch 5" at the "30 km" road marker will be passed at 17.4 km on your odometer. At 24.1 km on your odometer and take the right fork signed "Stevens Revelstoke & Arrow Park". Reset your odometer. You will pass the "23 km" road marker. Continue down "Stevens Road" for 14.8 km. Turn left onto the "West Mosquito Road". Reset your odometer. Travel 7.9 km north on the "West Mosquito Road" to the "16 km" road marker. See access notes above for the next 10.3 km to Caribou Lake.
  Coordinates: 50.222053, -118.035484

  The site on Recreation Sites and Trails BC

17.7 mdeepest6.6 mmean

South Caribou Lake runs to 17.7 m (58 ft) at its deepest, by the Province survey, 1981.

The mean of 6.6 m (22 ft) is read off the same chart, surveyed in September 1981.

The Province sounded South Caribou Lake and published the depth chart surveyed in 1981. It runs to 2 sheets.

• Depth chart 1 OF 1 (PDF)
• Depth chart 1 OF 1 (PDF)

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

In the model South Caribou Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 1 November and 19 November, and ice-off between 21 April and 6 May. The median winter freezes on 9 November and opens on 29 April.

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

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 24 November 2024 to 22 April 2025, 149 days.

We have no ice fishing regulation on file for South Caribou 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 South Caribou Lake is 1.1 C warmer than it was in the 1960s. That is 66 years of daily readings, not a forecast.

• +1.1 Csince the 1960s
• 7.9 Caverage year now
• 6.8 Caverage year then
• -17 daysbelow freezing, change

Open South Caribou Lake in the app

• Larson Lake 7 km away
• Cameron Lake 11 km away
• Mosquito Lake 11 km away
• Little Mosquito Lake 13 km away
• Arrow Lakes 16 km away

All 162 lakes in the Kootenays, 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