Ashcroft, BC, is a village centrally located in the South Central Interior of the Province of British Columbia, just off the Trans Canada Highway #1, 10 km south of Cache Creek (the junction of Hwy #1 and Cariboo Hwy #97), 330 km north of Vancouver and 95 km southwest of Kamloops.
Ashcroft is situated near the confluence of the Thompson and Bonaparte Rivers. Ashcroft lies in a unique desert setting on on a flat bench next to the Thompson River. It's lower riverside elevations abound with sagebrush and cactus, with pines on the rolling hills above. The downtown is on the east side of the Thompson River, although the municipal boundaries straddle the river, with housing and the town's hospital and recreation complex on the west bank. Population in the 2011 census was 1,628.
