Grizzly Den peak
Continue beyond Grizzly Den Cabin for a longer mountain outing above the forest and wet meadows. The summit needs its own navigation plan and adds substantial travel to the cabin hike.
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- Distance
- 18 kmRound trip
- Elevation gain
- Not establishedThe source lists 1050 m with the outward route. Any climbing on the return is not established; this is not a verified complete-return total.
- Walking time
- Not published
- Difficulty
- Not ratedOut and back
one way, February 2002 park brochure The round-trip distance is calculated from the published one-way length.
Map & elevation
Elevation profile
A full-route elevation profile is not available yet.
A reusable trail line has not yet been verified for this outing. Any location pin shows the published location described above; it does not draw the hike or establish a navigable approach.
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Getting there & parking
Use the Grizzly Den trailhead on Hungary Creek Forest Service Road. From Highway 16 east of Prince George, turn onto Hungary Creek Road and continue to the Grizzly Den parking area before the road continues toward Raven Lake. Published road distances vary slightly; the park brochure gives approximately 13 km from the highway. The road is not plowed in winter, so winter trips can include a substantial additional approach.
Estimated drive from Prince George: 1 hr 42 min · 102.7 km. Modeled one-way driving time from Prince George City Hall, using mapped road speeds. Forest-road sections can take substantially longer: surface, clearance, radio procedures, gates, washouts, plowing, and legal access are not verified by the router. No live traffic or invented forest-road multiplier is included. Allow extra time and check the dated access notes.
Map position: 53.77984, -121.49450 · trailhead. Converted from official degrees-decimal-minutes; datum unstated; not field-verified
On the trail
Follow the Grizzly Den trail past 8 Mile Cabin, through spruce-fir forest and wet meadow sections, crossing the small creeks on the established route to Grizzly Den Cabin. The cabin approach is about 6 km one way in the park brochure. Continuing to the peak makes this a longer outing; the same brochure gives approximately 9 km one way and 1,050 m of climbing to the peak, rather than the cabin hike’s 600 m. The brochure does not provide a complete sequence of upper-ridge junctions, so plan the summit extension with an appropriate topographic map rather than treating the cabin directions as a full peak route.
Conditions & seasons
The Hungary Creek road is not winter-plowed. Snow routes, avalanche terrain and the additional road approach need separate winter planning. A dated report records plankway construction in the lower wet meadows continuing in August 2026; it does not establish that all wet sections have been replaced by boardwalk.
These are dated research notes. Open the trip planner for current available weather and advisory feeds; no alert found does not establish that a trail or road is open.
Camping & overnight plans
Grizzly Den has a rustic cabin, backcountry camping and a pit toilet. Confirm cabin booking and current tenting instructions before an overnight stay; the summit itself is not identified as a designated campsite.
Photos of Grizzly Den peak
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Sources, dates & research notes
Descriptions are written for this guide from the linked evidence. Source review dates, published reports and field observations can differ. Photographs and route lines retain their own attribution and reuse terms.
- https://nrs.objectstore.gov.bc.ca/kuwyyf/sugarbowl_grizzlyden_brochure_53146eed08.pdf (opens original source)
- https://bcparks.ca/sugarbowl-grizzly-den-park/ (opens original source)
- https://nrs.objectstore.gov.bc.ca/kuwyyf/sugarbowl_grizzlyden_waypoints_c18ea15d07.pdf (opens original source)
- https://routing.openstreetmap.de/about.html (opens original source)
- https://caledoniaramblers.ca/trails/grizzly-den (opens original source)
Details still being researched
- These endpoint metrics are from the 2002 brochure; current route changes may alter the measured distance.
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