16 MILE
Is a very tiny hamlet situated about 14 kilometers north of Cache Creek on Highway #97, near the turnoff to the junction of Highways #97 and #99. It is named after the distance of the old Cariboo Wagon Road from Lillooet, which was 16 miles away. The community’s only economies are agriculture and farming. The climate here is semi-arid and desert-like with temperatures that can range anywhere from +20 degrees to +40 plus degrees in the summertime and because of this, there are plants and mammals that thrive in this type of environment including are cacti, tumbleweed live here in the surrounding hillsides as well, ginseng farming was very important here in the late 1990s. Attractions in 16 Mile include the Historic Hat Creek Ranch, which recalls the historic and early times back in the mid 1800s is found nearby. 16 Mile unincorporated and doesn’t serve any services to travelers, not even a gas station. Just mere minutes northwest, is where a a large hillside of colorful lignite deposits are found here. Known as “the Painted Hills”, and since the days of the Cariboo Gold Rush of when prospectors first discovered the deposits, this area has spurred interest, not only for paleontoligists, but also it is also popular area among photographers as there is a special viewpoint on the side of the highway, where you photos can be taken. It was also home and the basis of the now-abandoned Hat Creek coal thermal prosposal, where a coal-based thermal power plant was to be built here.
16 MILE'S POPULATION: 48
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