Kootenay Park Hot Springs

Kootenay National Park Hot Springs — known as Radium Hot Springs — is the most-visited natural thermal attraction in the Canadian Rockies, located in a spectacular limestone canyon along the Sincline Creek in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, where odourless bicarbonate-rich hot water emerges at 47°C and is mixed into the outdoor pool complex to create one of Canada's most popular natural mineral bathing destinations. The springs are set in a dramatic limestone gorge of the Redwall Fault, surrounded by the extraordinary Rocky Mountain scenery of Kootenay National Park — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — with its distinctive diversity of ecosystems ranging from semi-arid grasslands in the Columbia River valley to alpine glaciers on the Continental Divide. The hot pool's unusual lack of sulphurous smell — exceptionally rare for a hot spring of this temperature and flow — makes it one of the most pleasant outdoor mineral pools in North America, accessible year-round including in winter when the pools steam against snowy canyon walls. Radium Hot Springs' combination of world-class Rocky Mountain National Park scenery, genuinely hot and odourless mineral spring bathing, and proximity to Banff, Lake Louise, and the Icefields Parkway makes it the essential thermal bathing experience of the Canadian Rockies.