Kawkawa Lake

Kawkawa Lake drains into Sucker Creek, where an old railway grade starts and runs east into five tunnels blasted through granite.

The Kettle Valley Railway needed a way through the Coquihalla Gorge, where the river has cut about ninety metres down into rock. The answer, finished in 1914, was to drive straight through in a line rather than follow the canyon.

The chief engineer was Andrew McCulloch, who read a great deal of Shakespeare and named his stations accordingly. Othello, Romeo, Juliet, Portia. The tunnels took the name of the station beside them.

Flood damage closed the tunnels in 2021. Three of the five reopened in June 2025, with a new suspension bridge. The first stretch of trail out of Sucker Creek still leaves the rail grade in places to get around the salmon channels.