Takla forest road

When i'm bored at home this is a drive i often do.  Just drive all the way down north netchako road and eventually it turns into a gravel/dirt road(I just looked at google maps and see that it turns into Takla forest road). Some know this area as 'the flats.'  Go a little further and theres a nice rock beach hangout on the left:

When i got there, there was some BC Forestry employees testing some pumps in the water there. I continued on down Takla road, it goes through a native reserve area and there are some houses along side the river, some occupied, some abandoned.  You can bypass that area tho and keep on the main trail if you wish.  There is also a turn off that follows the river more just passed the reserve area which has a few roads off of it that can be fun to explore, its tough to find river access but it is possible in a few spots.  Anyways, i didn't make that turn and headed straight to the MacPhee road turn.  The road follows a small stream and has a well maintained bridge:

I saw two foxes, one very large, one of the biggest i've seen and the other just a pup near the bridge here.  There is a good mudpit area that i've seen some vehicles get good and dirty in along the way, it was littered with garbage of course:

McPhee road is a nice road that connects to Chief lake road, just passed the Nuko lake turn off, there is a beautiful wooden farm house and a nice view along the way.

There is another bridge and then a gravel pit on the right hand side of McPhee, which if you drive to the top of the pit, accesses a trail.  This trail is usually pretty tame with a few big looking puddles and a little bit of mud.  Two wheel drive until i started to bog down a bit and stepped on it and threw mud all over me and my interior, i stopped, put it in 4 high and continued on.  Not used to the big luggy rocker tires, that stick out an inch or two passed what my fenders cover!  The mud wasn't too bad, it was heavy and could just pick most of it up with my hands and it didn't even leave a mark where it was.  Anyway, generally stick to the rights along that trail and it will take you to a large gravel pit and a nice looking lake.  We used to call it hidden lake but i believe MacPhee lake suits it better, not sure of its proper name.  Can park up high above the gravel pit for a nice view or continue down to the lake.

One time I was at the lake there and some locals were there on quads and they told us there used to be a family that had parked their trailer on this concrete pad and worked at the quarry there and apparently one of them flipped over his front end loader and died.  They've moved on from the area.  There is a nice tomb overlooking the lake:

I then began my journey home.  You can just go out MacPhee road to Chief Lake Road and back to town but i chose to backtrack as i prefer the non paved route.  Parked at the rock beach for a while and felt how cold the water was, it was cold!  I stopped again and put my doors on and roof up shortly after as i was getting back to North Netchako and it looked like it would rain.  Only had a few drops tho.  The trip totaled 50km from my house and back.  I'll have to see how accurate my odometer is one of these days..

Google maps route