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 Several parks are located on the shoreline of Shuswap Lake, located in south-central BC, Canada. Referred to as the Shuswap Country or "the Shuswap", the area is noted for its leisure lakeshore communities and a system of lakes with more than 1,000 km. of immaculate beach. The place is known for its beautiful scenery and untouched environment.
Houseboating is popular in the Shuswap, where the biggest fleet of houseboats in Canada is found. It's also one of the largest in the world. Imagine restfully perched along the lake with friends and family beneath blue skies whilst looking at striking mountain views.
The Shuswap's many parks include Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, Shuswap Lake Marine Provincial Park, Silver Beach Provincial Park, the Cinnemousun Narrows Provincial Park and Shuswap Lake Provincial Park, site of the Adams River Sockeye Run.
Shuswap Lake drains through the Little River into Little Shuswap Lake, which happens to be the spring of the South Thompson River, a tributary of the Fraser River.
Visitors usually start exploring Shuswap Lake at Sicamous, the service center for Shuswap marine park and center of the houseboat fleet. People have plenty of choices to hire watercraft and marinas.
The H-shaped Shuswap Lake has 4 large arms: Anstey Arm, Seymour Arm, Shuswap Lake Main Arm, and Salmon Arm. The four arms come together at Cinnemousun Narrows, northeast of Sicamous. Glaciers scoured the arms and rounded the encircling Shuswap Highlands.
Towards the north-west the Lake is fed by the Adams River, that runs from Adams Lake. Shuswap Lake links to Mara Lake at the Sicamous Channel. Mara Lake is connected by the Shuswap River. On the east, the Eagle River flows down along the Eagle Pass in the Monashees and links with the lake at Sicamous. The Salmon River flows into the lake at Salmon Arm in the south-west. In the north the Seymour River empties into the Seymour Arm. Countless creeks supply the lake, involving Scotch Creek, which flows south to the north beach of the main arm, close to the district of Scotch Creek.
The First Nations individuals know as the Secwepemc or Shuswap are essentially the most northern of the Interior Salish peoples, and their territory encompasses the Shuswap.
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