Tenquille Lake

Region

Lower Mainland

Management unit

MU 2-11

Species

Rainbow Trout (last recorded 1995)The newest of these fish records is from 1995.Species from the province's fish observation records.

Lake size

Small Water (< 50 ha)

Coordinates

50.535403, -122.921643

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 Tenquille Lake yet.

Coordinates: 50.535403, -122.921643

Camping and rec sites at Tenquille Lake

• Tenquille Lake - Hawint

  Campsites

  9 designated

  To the shore

  138 m

  
  Access: This sub-alpine lake can be accessed from either the Hurley FSR via the Br. 12 road or the Lillooet River FSR via the Tenquille Lake Historic trail. <BR><BR> <b>2WD Access: Historic Tenquille Lake Trail </b><BR><BR>Travel North on Pemberton Meadows Rd, take a right turn on the Hurley FSR @ 23Km and continue for approximately 2 km to the bridge crossing Lillooet River. Cross the bridge and park immediately on the other side. Trailhead is approximately 50 meters up spur road to the right. <BR><BR> <b>4x4 Vehicle Access: Branch 12 (FROM HURLEY FSR) To Tenquille Lake Trail</b><BR><BR> Drive past Lillooet River access on Hurley FSR - zero your odometer at bridge, at approximately 7KM take RH (up) turnoff to towns of Bralorne/Goldbridge. Approximately 20 Km past Lillooet River bridge, look for the Hurley River/Tenquille Branch sign ('Branch 12') - turn right here. Distance to the trailhead is approx. 5 KM. <BR><BR><b>PLEASE BE CAUTIOUS OF ACTIVE LOGGING TRUCKS WHEN ACESSING FSR</b>
  Coordinates: 50.537044, -122.926664

  The site on Recreation Sites and Trails BC

37 mdeepest13.5 mmean

Tenquille Lake runs to 37 m (121 ft) at its deepest, by the Province survey, 1989.

The mean of 13.5 m (44 ft) is read off the same chart, surveyed in May 1989.

The Province sounded Tenquille Lake and published the depth chart surveyed in 1989.

• Depth chart (PDF)

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

In the model Tenquille Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 6 October and 18 October, and ice-off between 29 June and 20 July. The median winter freezes on 11 October and opens on 13 July.

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

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 21 October 2024 to 24 June 2025, 246 days.

We have no ice fishing regulation on file for Tenquille 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 Tenquille 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
• 9.1 Caverage year now
• 7.6 Caverage year then
• -12 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Tenquille Lake in the app

• Semaphore Lake 11 km away
• Birkenhead Lake 16 km away
• Chain Lakes 17 km away
• Gates Lake 22 km away
• Blackwater Lake 24 km away

All 133 lakes in the Lower Mainland, 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