Up until the 1950 s the road from the North end of Mission Mountain to the emerging gold mining town followed the valley floor. With the completion of Terzaghi dam, BC Electric built a road on the North shore which was extended to Lillooet in 1955. A shorter drive to the Lower Mainland is the Hurley River Road. This link was cut through the mountains by forest companies in the early 1970 s and runs straight south from Gold Bridge to Pemberton. It is still a dusty gravel road and only open between May and October.
Water now runs through turbines of hydro-electric plants and empties into Seton Lake.
Remnants of old homesteads and the town of Minto now rest under the waters of this man made lake. Only several hundred residents remained. Some continued placer mining the creeks, others started working for the forest industry. The area stayed virtually undiscovered by tourists until the late 1970 s when an outdoorsman named Gus Abel toured the back roads in search of a suitable place to build a destination resort. It had to be remote, on a lake, surrounded by mountains with dry hot summers and lots of powder snow in the winter time.