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Photo: Darren Kirby, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Once the site of a fortified village where the Gitwangak people defended their domain in the mid-1700s to 1800s, the site includes a trail with interpretive signs. The nearby Gitwangax Village features several wooden totem poles.
Kitwanga or Gitwangak is in the Skeena region of west central British Columbia. Among the Hazelton and Bulkley Mountain Ranges, the place is on the north shore of the Skeena River, east of the Kitwanga River confluence. On BC Highway 37, northeast of the junction with BC Highway 16, the locality is by road about 115 kilometres (71 mi) northwest of Smithers, 99 kilometres (62 mi) northeast of Terrace, and 212 kilometres (132 mi) southeast of Stewart.
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Kitwankul National Historic Site
The historic village is home to some of the oldest-known and largest collection of totem poles in British Columbia.