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FERRY CROSSINGS BORDER CROSSINGS ROAD CONDITIONS Year-round free service. At the Canadian/US border, be sure CANADA DriveBC.ca 1-800-550-4997 Kinbasket L. Donald 93 KOOTENAY LAKE: HIGHWAY 3A to carry your passport or equivalent. Visit DriveBC.ca for real time info. Yoho To Jasper From Balfour, 6:30am-9:40pm For information and updates, visit: ELECTRIC VEHICLE TRAVEL BRITISH 148 From Kootenay Bay, 7:10am-10:20pm Travel.state.gov, Cbsa.gc.ca or call: km/92mi 233 km / 145 mi COLUMBIA the kootenay A strong EV Charger network is To KOOTENAY Crossing time: 35 minutes 1-800-461-9999 installed throughout the region. Vancouver ROCKIES Lake 28 Seattle 250-229-4215 Roosville & Kingsgate Plan your trip: PlugShare.com C km Edmonton Calgary Field /1 (Cranbrook) open 24 hrs Louise 8m Ban‰ 294 km / 183 mi Portland HARROP: HIGHWAY 3A and AccelerateKootenays.ca O i 22 Spokane rockies Across Kootenay River to Harrop and Procter Rykerts (Creston) 7am-11pm 2 9 Minneapolis Montreal Nelway (Nelson) 8am-midnight L Rogers 84 3 Toronto Crossing time: 5 minutes km/ 3km Salt Lake City 52m /2 L. Minnewanka On demand: 24 hours Waneta (Trail) 9am-5pm U Pass Golden i R 0m Cochrane i San Francisco Chicago New York 250-229-5650 Paterson (Rossland) open 24 hrs O Banff 1A To Medicine U. S. A. is british M Los Angeles UPPER ARROW LAKE: HIGHWAY 23 Cascade (Christina Lake) 8am-midnight Martha Glacier Hat 294 km / From Shelter Bay, 5am-midnight every hour Carson (Grand Forks) 8am-midnight B C i 182 mi Creek 95 /80m 8km From Galena Bay, 5:30am-12:30am everyAdams hour L. Midway (Okanagan) 9am-5pm 12 Houston I Canyon K 93 Canmore 1 Crossing time: 20 minutes 0 Oroville (Osoyoos) open 24 hrs Hot Springs 5 1A columbia’s Mt. Revelstoke A k Miami 250-265-2105 Y m Multi-lane Highways /6 Parson 5 Calgary ARROW PARK: HIGHWAY 6 23 m MEXICO i 3 Major Highways i Revelstoke M 10 Junction of Upper m 5 Mexico City 3 km Kootenay Bow Valley and Lower Arrow Lakes To /4 /6 Harrogate 22 mountain m 5 Secondary Roads k O m Wildland 9 0 Kootenay i Crossing time: 5 minutes Vancouver 7 On demand: Spillimacheen 93 Mount 40 462 km / 287 mi Shushwap L. Malakwa Craigellachie U Ferries Spray Kananaskis 5am-12:05pm; 49k Vermilion Assiniboine Three N M Valley Country Cities playground 2:15pm-9:20pm m Crossing Valley /3 250-265-2105 0 22 Sicamous M m T Rockies P Brisco 2 i Towns LOWER ARROW LAKE: O Okotoks Arrow A 95 Peter HIGHWAY 6 ALBERTA Villages O Blanket REGION U Lougheed From Fauquier: 5am-10pm; Lakes I Black Creek 23 Bugaboo U every half hour N Sinclair Turner Valley Diamond Daily Air Service Mara L. Galena N Kananaskis From Needles: 5:15am-9:45pm; N Edgewater Pass Elbow-Sheep i Bay 31 every half hour S Village High River National & Provincial m 9 7 Radium 4 K R T Wildland 2 / T Village of k Crossing time: 5 minutes Salmon Arm o m A 9 m h o Trout 9 1 Hot Springs Parks k o t Shelter k 3 / BRITISH 5 5 m e m Radium Hot Springs k Shuttle Service: 10pm-5am 7 7 n Lake /6 m A p a Bay 2 / m s y m 8 Longview i 250-265-2105 o i m Dry Gulch Parks with Vehicle/Tent S 23 n R C i Trout L. i o COLUMBIA C l O o Enderby c m I s Campsite k k 4 e a i e 3 n / Halcyon d s H a W

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i Christina Lake 3 1 17 Midway 2 i 1 51km/32m 1km/13 m Rykerts Kingsgate Rock Creek Carson Cascade Paterson Waneta Nelway Park To Kalispell Waterton L. Danville 120 km / 75 mi To Spokane 95 89 Oroville 395 22 200 km / 124 mi 1 22A 31 IDAHO To Sandpoint MONTANA 37 Eureka WASHINGTON Northport 95 km / 59 mi 7 © RMV Publications Ltd. Saint Mary 97 BACKCOUNTRY Ione SNOWSHOEING FAT BIKING DOG SLEDDING Thousands of hectares of unspoiled, If you can walk, you can snowshoe! Thanks to fat bikes with big low-pressure 93 A journey through the wilderness aboard Tonasket uninhabited terrain25 in the Kootenay Tiger Indeed, not many sports are Bonnersas easy to Ferry tires that glide over packed snow trails, a husky powered dogsled is a breathtaking Going-to-the-Sun Road 20 Rockies is a huge draw for adventurers of get into as snowshoeing. And not many there’s no need to stop pedalling in winter. experience. From the energy and Lake (Closed Winter) 97 all makes and models. Backcountry lodges regions are as perfect for pouncing Awesome winter riding is yours for the excitement of the dogs, to the smoothMcDonald nestled deep in the mountains include through powder as the Kootenay Rockies. taking in and around the communities. slide of the sled, there is nothing quite like 89

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