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Tunkwa Park

50.6091° N, 120.8805° W

Tunkwa Park, British Columbia. 50.6091° N, 120.8805° W

Provincial park, 51.4 km². Scale bar on the map.

borealbound.ca/parks/bc/tunkwa-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.
  • 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).
  • Air Quality Health Index observations and forecasts, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence).

Tunkwa Park is a 51.4 km² provincial park 11 km southwest of Savona, in British Columbia. It was established in 1996.

2 named lakes lie in or along the park; the largest is Tunkwa Lake (1.54 km²).

Area
51.4 km²
Established
1996
Named lakes
2

Conditions today

8.9 °C

Wind calm

Observed at Cache Creek, as of 1:00 a.m. PDT

Tonight: Mainly cloudy. Wind east 20 km/h becoming southwest 30 late this evening. Low 10.

Weather: Cache Creek (local forecast), as of 1:02 a.m. PDT

Sun and moon

Civil dawn
6:44 a.m.
Sunrise
7:16 a.m.
Sunset
6:23 p.m.
Civil dusk
6:56 p.m.
Moonrise
6:15 a.m.
Moonset
5:43 p.m.
Moon
Waning crescent, 1% lit

Air Quality Health Index

2 low risk

Kamloops, as of 1:00 a.m. PDT

In the park

FeatureArea
1Tunkwa Lake1.54 km²
2Leighton Lake0.46 km²

Official record

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