British Columbia provincial highway 8

British Columbia provincial highway 8, known as the Nicola Highway, is an alternate route to Highway 97C between Highway 1 and the Coquihalla Highway. Highway 8 was first commissioned in 1953, and very little about the highway has changed since that year. Highway 8 follows the Nicola River for 61 km between Lower Nicola, a community just west of Merritt where it meets Highway 97C, west to Spences Bridge, on Highway 1.