The architecture and structures of the Kootenay Rockies reflect their pioneer past. Visit a restored 1890s boomtown as well as Nelson, considered one of the finest heritage cities in Canada.
You won't want to miss the site where the "Last Spike" was struck in Canada's first transcontinental railway or witness Revelstoke Dam, one of North America's largest hydroelectric developments.
You can also travel back in time millions of years at the Burgess Shale in Yoho National Park, home to the world's finest Cambrian-aged fossils of soft-bodied marine organisms.