Saturday, January 4, 2014
Outdoor Adventures At Harrison Hot Springs Community
By Harriett Crosby
Visit Harrison Hot Springs Community to enjoy a weekend getaway, or a week long vacation. It's a small but busy resort community located just five hours from Vancouver, three hours from Seattle. Enjoy resort amenities, stay at a B&B, rent a condo or cottage, or bring a tent and your own boat too. Explore the outdoors, peruse art galleries and souvenir shops, dine at specialty restaurants or coffee shops.
Harrison Lake is a great place for all kinds of water fun including the Floating Water Park and Bridal Falls Water Park for family fun. Enjoy bumper boat fights and banana tube rides. Rent paddle boats or power boats. There's water skiing, white water rafting and ocean kayaking.
Eco tourists can join guided hiking tours or boating tours. Hell's Gate Air Tram is an exciting adventure taking sightseers through 7 mountain tunnels. Canada is known for its wonderful fishing and Harrison Lake is no exception. Join a charter or rent a power boat to fish for salmon, sturgeon, or steelhead trout.
Visit local farms and orchards open to the public. There's a chicken and turkey farm, a dairy farm, a hazelnut orchard. Visit a 1906 general store museum at Kilby Historic Site. Stop at The Back Porch, a local pottery studio and collectibles store. Attend monthly art shows featuring area artists at the Ranger Station Public Art Gallery. The local choir performs twice a year. There's even stock car racing at Agassiz Speedway.
Enjoy local festivals from April's Tulips of the Valley festival, to December's Christmas in the Village. The First Nation Sts'ailes participate in war canoe races and Sasquatch story telling during Sasquatch days in June. For 10 days in July, art and music are featured with an arts and crafts market. International musicians perform at Memorial Hall and on the beach. Also in July, come to this bustling little village to celebrate Canada Day, a Dragon Boat Regatta, and a Slow Food Cycle Tour of farm country. Enjoy music on the beach while enjoying the final days of summer on Labor Day weekend. Oktoberfest is the theme of the Harrison Beer Festival. Eco-tourists should return in November for the Bald Eagle Watch Festival.
Soak in the hot mineral waters at a resort or at the public pool. The hot springs were recognized as a spiritual and medicinal healing place by the First Nations. Since the mid 1800's Europeans have flocked to the hot mineral waters for healing and relaxation. Today's spas offer relaxing stone massages, nurturing body wraps, facials and pedicures.
If you love winter sports, Harrison Hot Springs is a perfect destination. Surrounded by mountains, winter sport enthusiasts enjoy skiing, back country skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, dog sledding. And what better way to end a day in the snow than a stop at the Hot Springs.
Harrison Hot Springs community is located on a lake, next to the hot springs, and surrounded by mountains. Find brochures and maps at the Visitors Centre. Explore Provincial Parks. Enjoy water activities, hiking, and biking. Come back in winter for fun in the snow activities. Don't neglect the art community with its music concerts and art galleries.
Harrison Lake is a great place for all kinds of water fun including the Floating Water Park and Bridal Falls Water Park for family fun. Enjoy bumper boat fights and banana tube rides. Rent paddle boats or power boats. There's water skiing, white water rafting and ocean kayaking.
Eco tourists can join guided hiking tours or boating tours. Hell's Gate Air Tram is an exciting adventure taking sightseers through 7 mountain tunnels. Canada is known for its wonderful fishing and Harrison Lake is no exception. Join a charter or rent a power boat to fish for salmon, sturgeon, or steelhead trout.
Visit local farms and orchards open to the public. There's a chicken and turkey farm, a dairy farm, a hazelnut orchard. Visit a 1906 general store museum at Kilby Historic Site. Stop at The Back Porch, a local pottery studio and collectibles store. Attend monthly art shows featuring area artists at the Ranger Station Public Art Gallery. The local choir performs twice a year. There's even stock car racing at Agassiz Speedway.
Enjoy local festivals from April's Tulips of the Valley festival, to December's Christmas in the Village. The First Nation Sts'ailes participate in war canoe races and Sasquatch story telling during Sasquatch days in June. For 10 days in July, art and music are featured with an arts and crafts market. International musicians perform at Memorial Hall and on the beach. Also in July, come to this bustling little village to celebrate Canada Day, a Dragon Boat Regatta, and a Slow Food Cycle Tour of farm country. Enjoy music on the beach while enjoying the final days of summer on Labor Day weekend. Oktoberfest is the theme of the Harrison Beer Festival. Eco-tourists should return in November for the Bald Eagle Watch Festival.
Soak in the hot mineral waters at a resort or at the public pool. The hot springs were recognized as a spiritual and medicinal healing place by the First Nations. Since the mid 1800's Europeans have flocked to the hot mineral waters for healing and relaxation. Today's spas offer relaxing stone massages, nurturing body wraps, facials and pedicures.
If you love winter sports, Harrison Hot Springs is a perfect destination. Surrounded by mountains, winter sport enthusiasts enjoy skiing, back country skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, dog sledding. And what better way to end a day in the snow than a stop at the Hot Springs.
Harrison Hot Springs community is located on a lake, next to the hot springs, and surrounded by mountains. Find brochures and maps at the Visitors Centre. Explore Provincial Parks. Enjoy water activities, hiking, and biking. Come back in winter for fun in the snow activities. Don't neglect the art community with its music concerts and art galleries.
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