
Point of Interest
Radium Hot Springs (resort)
The soaking pools of Radium Hot Springs steam invitingly, 2km north of the eponymous town and just within the boundary of Kootenay National Park. First used by aboriginal people, they were developed as a spa in the 1890s due to the presence of supposedly therapeutic traces of radium. Today bathers arrive by the thousand – up to 4000/day on peak...