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Free camping and cell signal in Peace & Liard
Where Crown land camping is allowed in Far Northeast: Peace & Liard, where you'll still have signal to work or call for help, and what's on the road in: logging, surface and parking. One map, saved to your phone for use with no signal.
Open Peace & Liard in the mapCan you camp on Crown land in Peace & Liard?
Yes, on most of it. Provincial Crown land in BC allows free camping for up to 14 days in one spot, as long as you leave no permanent structures and follow posted closures and fire bans. In Peace & Liard the map shows which land is Crown, which is private (including private forest land), and which is park, First Nation or municipal land, so you can tell a legal pull-off from someone's property before you drive in. Parks and protected areas here include BUCKINGHORSE RIVER WAYSIDE PARK, CECIL LAKE ECOLOGICAL RESERVE, EKWAN LAKE PROTECTED AREA, FORT NELSON RIVER ECOLOGICAL RESERVE, GRAHAM-LAURIER PARK and more; camp only in their designated sites.
Where will I have cell signal?
Coverage in the backcountry follows the valleys and the highways. Using every licensed cell site and a terrain model of where each one can reach, the map estimates that a clear line of sight to a site covers about 4% of Peace & Liard for Telus and Bell, 0% for Rogers and Fido and 0% for Freedom. Telus / Bell reaches the most of this region. The region has 39 Telus/Bell, 3 Rogers/Fido and 0 Freedom cell sites. Speed tests from other campers show where it's good enough to work from.
Remote spots with signal in Peace & Liard
Ranked by distance from town and signal. Tap one to open it on the map.
- Crown land · gravel road · 15.8 km from Upper Halfway · line of sight to Telus / Bell
- Crown land near Monteith Creek · gravel road · 14.5 km from Upper Halfway · line of sight to Telus / Bell
- Crown land near Orange Creek · gravel road · 26 km from Charlie Lake · line of sight to Telus / Bell
- Crown land near West Red Creek · gravel road · 26.2 km from Charlie Lake · line of sight to Telus / Bell
- Crown land · gravel road · 22.9 km from Charlie Lake · line of sight to Telus / Bell
- Crown land · gravel road · 23.3 km from Charlie Lake · line of sight to Telus / Bell
- Crown land · gravel road · 24 km from Charlie Lake · line of sight to Telus / Bell, Rogers / Fido
- Crown land · gravel road · 23.8 km from Charlie Lake · line of sight to Telus / Bell, Rogers / Fido
- Crown land near Murdale · gravel road · 28.3 km from Charlie Lake · line of sight to Telus / Bell, Rogers / Fido
- Crown land near Hold-Up Creek · gravel road · 28.7 km from Charlie Lake · line of sight to Telus / Bell, Rogers / Fido
Logging and road access
542 cut blocks in Peace & Liard have harvesting under way according to Province records. The map marks them so you can avoid log-truck roads and fresh clearcuts, and shows which roads are paved, gravel, rough or unpaved tracks, plus parking lots and trailheads.
Open Peace & Liard in the map