Helmcken Falls

Helmcken Falls is a waterfall on the Murtle River in Wells Gray Provincial Park. Just before the river meets the Clearwater River joins, he falls from the Murtle Plateau 141 m in depth. Thus, this waterfall in southeastern British Columbia is the fourth highest in Canada.

Sediments igneous rock once formed layer by layer, the Murtle Plateau. It was flooded in the last ice age, and so the precipitous walls formed on the banks of the Murtle River.

The protection of the waterfall was one of the main reasons for the emergence of partially wooded, inhabited by bears natural parks. Another reason for the establishment of the park, so against the colonization, the volcanic activity in this vast, about 5000 square kilometers of wilderness in the middle of the Wells Gray -Clearwater volcanic field.

Was named the waterfall after the German -born physician John Sebastian Helmcken, who worked on behalf of the Hudson 's Bay Company in British Columbia and helped to annex the land of the Canadian Confederation. Helmcken even got the waterfall never see them.