Province closes off Elephant Hill, Allie Lake fire footprints to off-road vehicles
CACHE CREEK, B.C. — The B.C. government has announced it will close off a large portion of the Interior to off-road vehicle use, effective January 1, 2019.
The areas affected are those scorched by the Elephant Hill wildfire in 2017 and the Allie Lake wildfire earlier this year.
In a news release, the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development says those areas will be off limits for “automobiles, trucks, motorcycles and all types of off-road recreational vehicles, except on existing roads.”
The closure will be in effect until December 31, 2020.