The
Douglas Road, aka the
Lillooet Trail,
Harrison Trail or
Lakes Route, was a
goldrush-era transportation route from the
British Columbia Coast to the
Interior (NB another route known as the Lillooet Trail was the
Lillooet Cattle Trail, which used some of the same route but was built 25 years later). Over 30,000 men are reckoned to have travelled the route in, although by the end of the 1860s it was virtually abandoned due to the construction of the
Cariboo Wagon Road, which bypassed the region.