Wrinkly Face Park

Highlights in this park

The park protects a series of dry meadows at the top of a basalt cliff formation and the wetter meadows at its base, along with the interior Douglas fir forest. The dry, seasonally-wet, diverse meadows are extremely fragile. Five red-listed and blue-listed vascular plants are known to occur including red-listed Obscure Cryptantha and Needleleaved Navarretia as well as blue-listed Northern Linanthus, False-mermaid and Awned Cyperus squarrosus.

Secondarily, the park provides low-impact recreational opportunities and contains part of the regionally-significant 55 km long High Rim Trail.

Know before you go

Advisories

Special notes

Motorized vehicles are not permitted in the park.
Campfires are not permitted.
National Topographic Series Maps Sheet 082L/03 (Oyama) at a scale of 1:50,000 cover the area.

Review the detailed guides under visit responsibly for more information on staying safe and preserving our natural spaces.

Visit responsibly

Follow these guides to ensure your activities are safe, respectful, and ecologically friendly:

Maps and location

Getting there

The approach trail is located just north-east of Winfield, at the south-west end of Long Mountain, south of Vernon. The park is accessed via the Beaver Main Forest Service Road. From Highway 97 follow Beaver Lake Road for about 12 km to the High Rim trail head. Hike north about one hour to the park.

Things to do

Hiking

There are several well-defined hiking trails in this park.

For your own safety and preservation of the park, obey posted signs and keep to designated trails. Shortcutting trails destroys plant life and soil structure.

Horseback riding

The High Rim Trail through the park is open to horses. Please stay on designated trails.

Climbing

The basalt columns on the south west side of the cliff offer mountaineering opportunities for experienced climbers.

Hunting

Wrinkly Face Park is open to the discharge of firearms during the lawful game hunting season. Please check the BC Hunting and Trapping Regulations for more information.

Anyone hunting in British Columbia must comply with BC hunting regulations. To learn more, see the fishing and hunting guide.

About this park

Conservation

The park protects representations of the Biogeoclimatic Zones interior cedar-hemlock and interior Douglas fir. Contributions represent two percent of the total of these representations in the overall protected area system.

Wild Flowers:

June 2007: Northern sanicle, pygmy bitterroot.
May 2005: Lupin, wild strawberry, heart-leaved arnica, small-flowered blue-eyed Mary, upland larkspur, early blue violet, annual hawksbeard, Saskatoon, low pussytoes, alpine paint brush, blue clematis, few flowered shooting star, old man’s whiskers, round-leaved alumroot, meadow death camus, fairy slipper, false Solomon’s seal, kinnikinnick, fern-leaved desert-parsley, crane’s bill, shrubby penstemon, yarrow, common dandelion.
September 2004: Flowering thistle.

Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples

BC Parks honours Indigenous Peoples’ connection to the land and respects the importance of their diverse teachings, traditions, and practices within these territories. This park webpage may not adequately represent the full history of this park and the connection of Indigenous Peoples to this land. We are working in partnership with Indigenous Peoples to update our websites so that they better reflect the history and cultures of these special places.

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