Giscome Portage-Huble Homestead Regional Park

Municipality / Electoral Area
Electoral Area G (Crooked River-Parsnip)
Street address
Mitchell Road
Map link
Google Maps
Hours of operation
  • May 1 to November 1, 6 am to 11 pm
    (Huble Homestead Historic Site has separate operating hours)
two white wooden farmhouse buildings in a grass field
two wooden barns in a grass field
wooden trailhead sign for Giscome Portage surrounded by evergreen trees

Huble Homestead Historic Site is located in Giscome Portage Regional Park on the Fraser River, 40 km north of Prince George on Mitchell Road, just off Highway 97.

The Giscome Portage crosses the Arctic Continental Divide between the Pacific and Arctic watersheds and was an overland link for north and south-bound travelers. The Lheidli T'enneh used it as a trade route and for harvesting plants and animals. They called it Lhdesti, "the shortcut". The trail bears the name of John Robert Giscome, the first non-Indigenous person to travel it in 1863.

In 1905, Al Huble and Ed Seebach opened a freight business at the south end of the portage. They also guided boats through the Giscome rapids and sold goods to the area's homesteaders. Today, Huble Homestead has an original 1912 dovetail log house, general store, blacksmith shop, barns and costumed interpreters.