Kechika Trail

The Kaska Dena have lived for thousands of years in the mountains and river valleys of northern British Columbia. The Kechika River flows northwest through the northernmost stretch of the Rocky Mountain Trench before turning east to join the Liard. Its valley carried a network of routes linking hunting grounds, fishing camps and river crossings. The country is high, glaciated and forested, and in the nineteenth century fur traders began exploring these routes, which the Kaska had used for far longer.