Finding Fall Colours
The West Kootenay Hiking Guidebook is here!
Welcome to the wild West Kootenay! This guidebook shares the very best hiking trails in our corner of southeast British Columbia. With detailed access and hiking directions, thoughtful topographic maps and elevation profiles, stunning photographs, and even downloadable GPX files, this book gives you everything you need to plan your next mountain adventure.
Recommended fall hikes!
Beattie-White Queen Loop
Mount Beattie and White Queen have individual trails leading to their respective summits… but you can also hike a loop …
Carpenter Pass Trail
The Carpenter Pass Trail offers a scenic loop to a high mountain pass, full of history and surrounded by epic …
Mount Roberts
The trail up Mount Roberts starts easy and gets tough. But it also gets incredibly scenic! With big views of …
Monica Meadows
A panoramic landscape of meadows and mountains, waterfalls and wildflowers, larches and lakes! Monica Meadows is an incredibly scenic hike …
Mount Crawford & Plaid Lake Trail
Shimmering with colourful quartzite, Mount Crawford dazzles hikers along the Plaid Lake Trail. With scenic alpine ridges, flowering meadows, a …
Pulpit Rock & the Flagpole
Pulpit Rock is the most popular Nelson hike. Locals treat the trail like an outdoor gym and sometimes it feels …
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