LONE BUTTE
Is a small community
situated 20 kilometers southeast of 100 Mile House and located on Highway #24
in the Cariboo region of British Columbia
Lone Butte was once a busy
town for ranchers who settled in the area from the late-1800s, to the 1950s and
used to be bigger than that of nearby Cariboo towns such as 100 Mile House,
Clinton and 70 Mile House and even had sawmills, stockyards, hotel, small
hospital, school and its own railway station for the Pacific Great Eastern
Railway to carry passengers to and from the community. Today’s version of Lone
Butte is quieter that it once was; it is an unincorporated community that
features a café, pub, a few shops, a restaurant, gas station, general store, community
hall and a small art gallery.
Named after a hardened plug
of an ancient and extinct volcano that stands predominately 250 meters over the
town towards the east and where hikers can climb it for an impressive view of
the surround area, Lone Butte also attracts many fisherman to the area thanks
to many lakes located close by including that of Irish, Deka, Sheridan, Bridge,
Horse and Hathaway Lakes.
One other attraction in Lone
Butte is the Pacific Great Eastern Railway’s (which merged to become the
British Columbia Railway in 1972) last standing wooden water tower, where
during the 1920s, the railway used it to top off its fleet of steam
locomotives.
Lone Butte
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