Recreational Panning Reserves

The Ministry has created a number of recreational panning reserves around the Province that are open to the general public to use for recreational gold panning.  Recreational panning is restricted to hand pans, hand shovels, and metal detectors.  The use of sluice or shaker boxes, suction dredges, and other mechanical devices are not permitted.

The following maps are all in Adobe pdf format:

Barnes Creek BCGS Map 082E.090 & .100 ( 118 kb)

Cayoosh Creek (near Lillooet), BCGS Map 092I.061 ( 149 kb)

Erickson, BCGS Map 082F.008 & .018 (158 kb)

Goldstream River, BCGS Map 082M.068 ( 101 kb)

Hope, BCGS Map 092H.033 ( 127 kb)

Kennedy River, BCGS Map 092F.013 ( 101 kb)

Lytton, BCGS Map 092I.023 ( 130 kb)

Princeton, BCGS Map 092H.048 ( 221 kb)

Quesnel-Fraser River Junction, BCGS Map 093B.098 ( 167 kb)

Spruce Creek, BCGS Map 104N.052 ( 93 kb)

Van Winkle Flat (new Lytton), BCGS Map 092I.022 ( 112 kb)

Wild Horse River (near Fort Steele), BCGS Map 082G.052 & .062 (124 kb)

Yale, BCGS Map 092H.053 ( 137 kb)