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Cariboo Mountains

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Car·i·boo Mountains  (kr-b)
A range of eastern British Columbia, Canada, parallel to and west of the Rocky Mountains. It rises to 3,583.8 m (11,750 ft) at Mount Sir Wilfred Laurier. Gold was discovered in the western foothills in 1860.

Cariboo Mountains
pl n
(Placename) a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 3582 m (11 750 ft.)


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Ice was channelled in various directions by transverse valleys, but regionally it flowed outward to join a northward flow, then eastward around the Cariboo Mountains toward the Rocky Mountains northeast of Prince George (Tipper 1971).
Cariboo, Chilcotin and Coast British Columbia''s central region is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Cariboo Mountains in the east.
An American company with 75 years in the travel trade, they offer more unusual tours, including Hawaii island hopping, the Canadian Rockies with a helicopter trip into the Cariboo Mountains and a Cajun Country tour, which includes a four- night cruise steamboating down the Mississippi to New Orleans.
 
 
 
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