Okanagan mountains

Monashee Mountains are a mountain range in BritishReservoir (formerly the Columbia River before the
Columbia, Canada covering the areas of Britishconstruction of the Grand Coulee Dam) in
Columbia (78%) and Washington (22%) andWashington State. Some definitions may place the
extending 530 km from north to south and 150 kmnorthern limit at the Coldstream Valley, east of
from east to west. They belong to the ColumbiaVernon, British Columbia, as that is the southern limit
mountain range. Neighbouring in the west are theof the Shuswap Highland.
Selkirk Mountains. Monashee Mountains are limitedTo the east of the Okanagan Highland are the
from the east by Columbia River and Arrow Lakes,Monashee Mountains, some definitions of which
to the west by upper North Thompson River,include the Okanagan Highland as well as portions of
Shuswap Lake and Okanagan Lake. Its north end is inthe Shuswap Highland.
Robson Valley at Valemount BC. Peaks include HallamThe Thompson Plateau is the southernmost portion
Peak (3,205 m) and Cranberry Mountain (2,872 m).of the Interior Plateau of British Columbia, Canada,
Between Revelstoke and Shuswap Lake the range islying between Okanagan Lake and the Thompson
crossed by Highway 1, the Trans-Canada HighwayRiver. Its southwestern edge abuts the Canadian
and the mainline of the Canadian Pacific RailwayCascades portion of the Cascade Range, more or
thorough Eagle Pass. Monashee Mountains' southernless following the line of the Similkameen River, its
end is a subject of major mining activities.tributary the Tulameen River, and a series of passes
In some descriptions of the Monashees, a regionfrom the area of Tulameen, British Columbia to the
known as the Okanagan Highland is included. It liesconfluence of the Thompson River with the
between the Kettle River and Okanagan Lake, southNicoamen River, a few miles east of Lytton, British
of the Shuswap River. Within this area is the smallColumbia. Its northwestern edge runs approximately
Sawtooth Range, which lies between the uppermostfrom the city of Vernon, British Columbia through the
Shuswap River (E) and Mabel Lake (W).valley of Monte Creek to the junction of the same
Also sometimes included is the portion of thename just east of the city of Kamloops. Northeast of
Shuswap Highland south of the North Thompsonthat line is the Shuswap Highland.
River, the boundary of which extends south to theSome definitions include the Bonaparte Plateau, which
Okanagan Highland.lies in the angle of the Thompson and Bonaparte
MountainsRivers, and south of the uppermost reaches of that
Mount Monashee 3274mriver and a small tributary of the North Thompson,
Hallam Peak 3205mLemieux Creek.
Thor Mountain 3146mThe dominant landscape of the Thompson Plateau is
Mount Odin 2971ma high, almost plains-like rangeland fairly heavily
Cranberry Mountain 2872mforested with subalpine forest and tamarack swamp,
The Pinnacles 2607mplunging steeply to the valleys of the Thompson and
The Okanagan Highland, also known as the OkanoganOkanagan on its outer perimeter. In its core is the
Highland in the United States, is a plateau-like hilly areabroad and open rangeland of the Nicola Valley, at the
in British Columbia, Canada. It lies between thefocus of which is the town of Merritt, British
Okanagan Valley on its west and the Kettle River onColumbia. Towards its southern edges, the plateau is
its east, and geologically is more or less an extensionfairly mountainous and includes the ski area at Apex,
of the Thompson Plateau, which lies west of theBritish Columbia, as well as the small but rugged
Okanagan. Its northern perimeter is the valley of theOkanagan Range which runs south from there to the
Shuswap River, while its southern limit is the FDRconfluence of the Similkameen and Okanagan Rivers.