An easy and very popular trail (30mins • 1.6km return) over a series of log bridges across Tokumm Creek leads to Marble Canyon, a gorge that’s been steadily eroded for the last eight milenia to produce a 600m-long and 37m-deep gorge below a thundering waterfall. The glossy rock mistakenly once called marble is really limestone. No matter, it’s still attractive,...

An easy 1.5km walk (45min return) from a Hwy-93 parking lot through damp, gloomy and mossy forest reveals the Paint Pots. These bright orange pools are the result of iron-rich spring waters bubbling through the clay sediments of an ancient glacial lake. Their striking colour made them of great importance to many aboriginal tribes, particularly the local Stoney and Ktunaxa,...