Hells Gate
Hells Gate is an abrupt narrowing of British Columbia's Fraser River, located immediately downstream of Boston Bar in the southern Fraser Canyon. The towering rock walls of the Fraser River plunge toward each other forcing the waters through a passage only 35 metres wide.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Opening hours: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Tourist attraction with an elevation of 151 metres
- Description: Geographic Landmark in British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Hell’s Gate”
- Address: 43111 Trans-Canada Highway, Boston Bar, BC V0K 1C0
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boston Bar.
Boston Bar
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boston Bar is an unincorporated village of about 190 people in the Fraser Canyon in the Thompson-Nicola region of British Columbia.
Hells Gate
- Categories: canyon, locality, and tourism
- Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
49.78196° or 49° 46′ 55″ northLongitude
-121.44685° or 121° 26′ 49″ westElevation
151 metres (495 feet)Open location code
84XWQHJ3+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
node 339373705OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Slovenian—“Hells Gate” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hells Gate”
- German: “Hells Gate”
- Hebrew: “הלס גייט”
- Lithuanian: “Pragaro vartai”
- Slovenian: “Vrata pekla, Britanska Kolumbija”
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