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PHOTOS: The two latest south Okanagan Catholic churches to burn to the ground
If you re in the extreme southern Okanagan, accessing Chopaka Road isn t a terribly difficult proposition. It intersects Hwy 3 (also known as the Crowsnest Highway), approximately halfway between Osoyoos and Keremeos.
But blink and you might miss the turnoff. There s an organic farm just a couple hundred meters off the highway, and then Chopaka Road becomes one of the most desolate thoroughfares in the region especially the fork that runs south and dead-ends at the US border, roughly paralleling the Similkameen River the entire way.
Just before you reach the nine-kilometer mark, maybe a kilometer north of the border, Chopaka turns from pavement to dirt. And it s precisely at this spot, where you may not see another vehicle for a half hour or more, that the tiny Church of the Lady of Lourdes once resided.