Cariboo Road
![Route of the Cariboo Road in red. Steamboat travel in blue; dotted lines are alternate routes or routes to other goldfields](/Images/godic/202501/03/South_BC-NW_USA-relief_CaribooRoad5550.png")
![A portion of the Cariboo Road just above Yale, circa 1867–1868](/Images/godic/202501/03/Cariboo_Road5550.jpg")
![Horse drawn freight wagons on the Cariboo Road along the Thompson River, 1867](/Images/godic/202501/03/Old_Cariboo_Road_18675550.jpg")
![The Cariboo Road at Soda Creek. The style of truss-bridge shown is typical of Royal Engineer design.](/Images/godic/202501/03/Cariboo_Road_at_Soda_Creek5550.gif")
The Cariboo Road (also called the Cariboo Wagon Road, the Great North Road or the Queen's Highway) was a project initiated in 1860 by the Governor of the Colony of British Columbia, James Douglas. It was a feat of engineering stretching from Fort Yale to Barkerville in the Canadian province of British Columbia through extremely hazardous canyon territory in the Interior of B.C.