Radium Hot Springs and Kootenay National Park
Kootenay National Park (Parks Canada) / Part Of The UNESCO Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site · Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia
Radium Hot Springs is a set of Parks Canada mineral pools at the west gate of Kootenay National Park in the Columbia Valley of south-eastern British Columbia, set below the red rock walls of Sinclair Canyon. The hot pool is commonly around 37 to 40 C, with a cooler swimming pool beside it, and the water has no strong sulphur smell, which surprises many visitors. Kootenay National Park, part of the UNESCO Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks site, runs north along Highway 93 South toward Banff, past Marble Canyon and the Paint Pots, ochre beds once used by Indigenous peoples for pigment. Bighorn sheep often stand in the streets of Radium village. It suits families, road-trippers and tired hikers. The pools are busy in summer and on weekends, swimsuits are required, and a Parks Canada pass is needed to stop in the park. Allow one to two hours at the pools, or a full day with the parkway. Banff is about 1.5 hours north.
5420 Highway 93, Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia, V0A 1M0, Canada
The pools are open for much of the year, commonly from late morning to late evening, with longer hours in summer and school holidays, and occasional closures for maintenance, so confirm opening times and any capacity limits on the day you plan to go. Kootenay National Park is open year round, but services along Highway 93 are limited in winter and the road can close for storms, rockfall or wildfire. A Parks Canada pass or day permit is needed to stop anywhere in the park, though the drive through town to the pools from the west gate area is handled at the gate, so confirm the pass rules. Quietest times for the pools are weekday mornings and late evenings; midday in July and August has the longest lines.
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