Kinuseo Falls

One of the most outstanding features in Monkman Provincial Park, the falls measure 197 feet (60 metres), slightly taller than Niagara Falls, though it doesn't move the same volume of water as Niagara.

The campground is also a departure point for people making further explorations into the park along the Monkman Pass Trail.

"...on our way down the east branch of the South Pine River (which flows north into the Peace, coming in below Hudson's Hope) we came to a large fall over 200 feet high.

We were unable to find anyone who had ever seen or heard of these falls, although some of the Indians had heard of them vaguely....." (February 1920 letter from S.Prescott Fay, Boston, to Geographic Board of Canada; BC file 34275-S#1, Ottawa file 0216).40658[1]The first written reference to the falls is on the Robert W. Jones 1906 map compiled for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.

Samuel Prescott Fay, American explorer, proposed the name in 1915 and 1920, and was initially spelt on a map as "Kinoosao Falls".