the largest town in the district is telegraph creek, which lies on a side-road to the west of the stewart-cassiar highway, which traverses the region from north to south, connecting parts of british columbia farther south with the yukon territory to the north. to the northeast of the stikine country is another region known as the cassiar country, and to its southeast is the omineca country (both of which had also at one time been "mining districts" resulting from their own gold rushes).