In Chetwynd, stop and admire the famous chainsaw carvings lining the streets.
Plant lovers be sure to visit to Memory Lane Greenhouse & Tea Gardens Bed & Breakfast. This charming garden setting is home to a 460-metre-squared (nearly 5,000 square feet) greenhouse filled with perennials, shrubs, trees, and vegetables, including rare heirloom tomatoes, some of which date back hundreds of years. There’s also a two-hectare (five-acre) International Friendship Garden filled with thousands of native plant and flower species from 19 different countries.

You can also stay in a lakeside cabin at Azouzetta Lake Lodge and Moberly Lake Marina and Resort, (which also offers boat rentals). Moberly Lake is home to northern pike, lake trout, and ling cod. Azouzetta, Gwillim, Jackfish, and Moose lakes are also popular fishing spots. If fly-fishing is your thing, wet a line on any of the nearby rivers, like the Burnt or Sukunka.
For those travelling by RV, Wild Mare RV Park is only five kilometres west of town, and Caron Creek RV Park and Riverview B&B can be found a quick 10 minutes south.
From here travel to Hudson’s Hope —known as the “Land of the Dinosaurs”— and peruse the dinosaur fossil and footprint collection at the Hudson’s Hope Museum.
From Hudson’s Hope, you can continue northeast on Highway 29 to Fort St. John. Alternatively, take a side trip to Tumbler Ridge and embark on a “Dinosaur Trackway Tour” to hike to dinosaur footprints at the Tumbler Ridge UNESCO Global Geopark, or spend the day hiking some of the area’s spectacular trails.

Dinosaur Footprint Site in Tumbler Ridge | Mike Seehagel