Explore Birchdale, British Columbia, Canada, with this interactive street and satellite map. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above the map to switch views. You can “grab” the map and drag it to re-centre it, or use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours — plus shaded relief, a labelled UTM grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
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This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Birchdale, British Columbia. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of British Columbia or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Birchdale and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the Canada Base Map from Natural Resources Canada with Toporama contours layered over it — the CanVec topographic data behind the printed NTS sheets, and the mapping used for hiking, hunting, canoe routes and back-country travel. Relief shows shaded relief and hypsometric tints. The search box finds any Canadian town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Birchdale.
Reading the map like a paper NTS sheet. Click Grid to overlay the UTM grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass — which matters in Canada, where declination runs from about 20 degrees west in Newfoundland to 20 degrees east in the Yukon.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what Canadian search and rescue work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Place | Birchdale |
| Type | Locality |
| Province / Territory | British Columbia (BC) |
| Location | Kootenay Land District |
| Country | Canada |
| Latitude | 50.033333 |
| Longitude | -116.86667 |
| Postal Code (FSA) | V0G |
| Area Code | 236, 250, 604, 672, 778 |
| Importance | Village / hamlet |
| CGN ID | JAJEP |
Birchdale is a locality in Kootenay Land District, British Columbia, Canada. It is classified as a village / hamlet. Birchdale is located at 50.0333°N, 116.8667°W.
Birchdale occupies a quiet, steep-sloped margin along the expansive reach of Kootenay Lake, where the terrain rises sharply toward the shadowed flanks of the Blue Ridge. It lies 67.5 km north-north-east of Nelson, BC (from Nelson, BC: bearing 27°T), and is situated 15.2 km south-south-east of Argenta. The light here gathers in the deep troughs between peaks, turning the water into a sheet of hammered silver as evening descends. Beyond the immediate shoreline, the landscape holds a rugged, vertical intensity, with the Kaslo River flowing through the wider basin about 14 km away. To the distant east, the high, cold presence of the Caribou Glacier sits 28 km from the shore, while the protected stillness of the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Park rests 27 km further into the high country. The early records of Birchdale reflect the stubborn persistence of those who settled along these rocky slopes to harvest the timber and navigate the lake’s long, narrow corridor. Birchdale maintains a character defined by the isolation of the shoreline and the sheer mass of the surrounding slopes, where the economy has shifted from the grit of resource extraction to the quiet stewardship of the land. Days in Birchdale pass with a singular focus on the lake, the weather systems catching against the Blue Ridge, and the seasonal migrations that track through the valley. The air holds a sharp, clean clarity that seems to sharpen the edges of the cedar and hemlock, grounding the inhabitants in a cycle defined by the rising and falling levels of Kootenay Lake rather than the hurried clocks of the world beyond the mountains.
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Explore Birchdale, British Columbia, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 50.033333, -116.86667. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Detailed location data for Birchdale includes the postal code (V0G), telephone area code (236, 250, 604, 672, 778). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Canadian town, county or landmark by name; offers the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours and shaded relief as base layers; overlays a labelled UTM grid so the map can be read like a printed NTS sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data for Birchdale is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; Canada Base Map, Toporama and CBME © Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence — Canada); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |