This provincial park was established in 2000 to protect the rich wildlife values and the wide biogeoclimatic representation. Most of all, this park (including the West Twin Protected Area) contains the only protected corridor across the Robson Valley trench. The 22,000 ha. area runs from the Cariboo Mountains in the south, through the main Robson Valley trench, and up the fronting ranges of the Rocky Mountains.

Named by Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission surveyors in 1923:

The Bastille-Wallbridge ridge shows steep shale slopes on the southwest side and a precipitous rock face on the northeast side, the latter supporting a cliff glacier, two miles in length.

Bastille Creek adopted in 1925 in association with Bastille Mountain at its head, not Black Bear Creek as labelled on BC map 3H, 1915 and 1919.

When a name to the watercourse was required for a water licence in 2010, the BC Geographical Names Office adopted “Goodell Creek” to recall W. R. Goodell, an outfitter and guide who operated out of the Dunster-McBride area in the 1920s and 1930s. The Office cites several passages in Marilyn Wheeler’s Robson Valley Story.

The BC Archives has an interview with Oliver Goodell in 1983, in which Oliver talks of his father (W. R.?) guiding hunters in the McBride area around 1919.

Wrigley’s British Columbia Directory for 1918 notes “Goodell G. trapping and Goodell L. E. trapping” at Shere.

L. E. “Slim” Goodell was a horse packer for the expedition of Rollin Thomas Chamberlin [1881–1948] up Tête Creek in 1924.

Referring to Ray Zillmer [1887–1960] and his son John — “the only persons known to have ascended the creek.” [No further information, or explanation why this was apparently a noteworthy accomplishment.]