Francois Lake Park

53.9789° N, 125.283° W

Francois Lake Park, British Columbia. 53.9789° N, 125.283° W

Provincial park, 72.1 km². Scale bar on the map.

borealbound.ca/parks/bc/francois-lake-park/, compiled October 9, 2026

Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
HydroLAKES v1.0, Messager et al. 2016 / WWF HydroSHEDS. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Canadian Geographical Names Database, Natural Resources Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
Census boundaries and population, 2021, Statistics Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.
City page weather forecasts and alerts, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence).

Francois Lake Park is a 72.1 km² provincial park 11 km southwest of Endako, in British Columbia. It was established in 1999.

1 named lake lies in or along the park; the largest is François Lake (253 km²).

Area: 72.1 km²
Established: 1999
Named lakes: 1

Conditions today

4.8 °C

Wind NW 9 km/h

Observed at Burns Lake, as of 9:00 a.m. PDT

Today: Periods of rain ending early this morning then cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Wind becoming north 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning. High 6. UV index 1 or low.

Weather: Burns Lake (local forecast), as of 9:03 a.m. PDT

Sun and moon

Civil dawn: 7:02 a.m.
Sunrise: 7:38 a.m.
Sunset: 6:37 p.m.
Civil dusk: 7:12 p.m.
Moonrise: 6:36 a.m.
Moonset: 5:57 p.m.
Moon: Waning crescent, 1% lit

In the park

Rank	Feature	Area
1	François Lake	253 km²

Rivers

Nithi River

Official names from the Canadian Geographical Names Database; each name opens its location on OpenStreetMap.

Official record

Designation: Provincial park
IUCN category: II, National parkInternational IUCN class, not a legal designation
Managed by: Government of British Columbia