Othello Tunnels, Canada: Gorge yourself on scenery

By Brian Johnston
September 17 2016 - 12:15am
A lush woodland path is worth exploring beyond the Othello Tunnels in Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park. Photo: Brian Johnston
A lush woodland path is worth exploring beyond the Othello Tunnels in Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park. Photo: Brian Johnston
Othello Tunnels.
Othello Tunnels.
Othello Tunnels tra16-canada Photo: Destination Canada Photo: Destination Canada
Othello Tunnels tra16-canada Photo: Destination Canada Photo: Destination Canada
Cycling the old trestle bridges of the Kettle Valley Railway, beyond the Othello Tunnels.
Cycling the old trestle bridges of the Kettle Valley Railway, beyond the Othello Tunnels.

In First Blood, Rambo hangs off a cliff above a raging river, while a policeman falls out of a circling helicopter into the gorge beneath. This is only Hollywood, but a hundred years earlier workers were hanging off ropes and clinging to ladders on these same cliff faces, hacking out most of the rock by hand to create one of the world's trickiest and most spectacular stretches of railway line.

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