Shuswap River Cottages and Travel Guide

Every four years the great Adams River Sockeye Salmon Run takes place. The Sockeye travel from the Pacific Ocean, up the Fraser and Thompson Rivers to spawn in their ancestral spawning grounds along the banks of the Adams River.

Website: www.salmonsociety.com

From the Adams River Salmon Society Website:
Every fourth year (2006, 2010, 2014…) during September and October, the quiet banks of the Adams River 405 km (251 miles) inland from the Pacific Ocean, becomes the scene of a natural miracle.

In these peaceful, colourful days of early fall, the normally quiet waters of the 12 km (7.2 mile) river turns turbulent and crimson as over two million sockeye salmon - returning from a life’s journey that takes them far out into the ocean - pour into their home waters to spawn and to die. And every four years, their arrival is welcomed by the “Salute to the Sockeye”; a pageant which draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, a section of the river dedicated to the famous British Columbia fly fisherman, naturalist and author.

Sockeye salmon return to the Adams River every year. But, the migration that occurs every fourth year dwarfs the others, reaching as high as 3.6 million sockeye in 2002.

Plan to stay with us this October, and celebrate the Shuswap Region’s Rivers and their Salmon. For more information on rates and availability please visit the accommodations page.

*Please Note: Shuswap River accommodation is located 1 hr 15min from the Adams River and Roderick Haig-Brown Park.There is no accommodation along the Adams River as the park runs the entire length of the river. The Adams River flows from Adams Lake into Shuswap Lake north of Chase. See Shuswap Recreation Map