What this is
Is the Fraser Canyon Open? is a free, single-purpose site that answers one question: is the Fraser Canyon (Highway 1, Hope to Lytton and Cache Creek) open, closed, or delayed right now. No accounts, no clutter.
Where the data comes from
The status is pulled directly from the BC Ministry of Transportation's DriveBC Open511 API and refreshed every five minutes. We filter to events on Highway 1 within the Fraser Canyon corridor — Hope, Yale, Alexandra Bridge, Hells Gate, Boston Bar, Jackass Mountain, Lytton and Spences Bridge — and deliberately exclude the Malahat, which is also Highway 1 but on Vancouver Island. Driver reports beneath the main status are unverified crowd input, useful when official data lags a fast-moving incident.
Part of RoadsBC
This site is part of the RoadsBC network of free BC highway status tools — see every major route at a glance.
Contact
Feedback, bug reports, or a Highway 1 closure we missed? Email hello@isthefrasercanyonopen.ca.
Not affiliated
Built and maintained independently — not affiliated with DriveBC or the BC Ministry of Transportation.
Privacy
Email addresses are used only to send closure alerts and are never shared or sold. No cookies, no cross-site tracking, and no third-party analytics. We keep only coarse, anonymous first-party counts (such as page views and app installs, with browser/OS family but no IP address or personal data) to understand how the site is used.