Rogers Pass
between Revelstoke and Golden is not to be missed. It receives an incredible ten meters of snow each winter.A visit to one of the many Hydroelectric Dams in the area can be fascinating and educational.
A darker side of Canada's history is examined at the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre, which preserves the stories of the more than 20,000 Japanese-Canadians interned here during the second World War.
Fort Steele
is preserved as a 1890s pioneer boomtown. Just north of Cranbrook.The Le Roi Gold Mine and Rossland Museum tell the story of the Kootenay gold rush.
The Burgess Shale Fossils, Yoho National Park. A UNESCO World Heritage Site that showcases the world's finest Cambrian-aged fossils of soft-bodied marine organisms.
