Outdoor Recreation Sites
***Janice Strong author of the Mountain
Footsteps
Hiking Guide Book to the East Kootenay.
***Or see her website for Beautiful Photographs of the region.
*** BC Forest Service Recreation Sites - We are the Rocky Mountain Forest District. This site lists BC FS hiking trails and campsites.
*** BC Parks We are in the Kootenay District of the Provincial Parks system.
*** We are in the Kootenay Rockies tourism region of British Columbia.
*** Access to commercial recreation, travel bookings for accomodation and general tourism information. Tourism BC Main Page
*** Golf Courses There are several quality courses in the Cranbrook and Kootenay Rockies Tourism Region.
*** Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation hunting site
*** Fly Fishing Elk River and St. Mary's River.
Fisher Peak
Cranbrook's most visable and favourite mountain in the BC Rockies. You can see this mountain from almost everywhere in the city.
Paintbrush Flowers at
Tiger Pass, Purcell Mountains.
Wildflowers grow in abundance in the Rocky Mountains and the Purcell Mountains. This image of high alpine and rugged glaciated peaks is only about a 4 hour drive from Cranbook.
Many other high alpine vistas await within an hour drive of the city.
Cranbrook Lifestyle Sites
*** Cranbrook Chamber of Commerce
*** College of the Rockies in Cranbrook
Also see Janice Strong's website for more Cranbrook Photographs.
*** Candian Museum of Rail Travel Visit extensive collection of restored luzury passenger rail cars from 1900's to 1920's in downtown Cranbrook.
*** Kootenay Ice Cranbrook's Western Hockey League Team.
*** Fort Steele Heritage Town. A BC Provincial Heritage Site. Visit the resoted 1890s boom town. Walk through the townsite and see over 60 shops, buildings, watch famring displays, ice-cream making, street theatre and ride the restored steam train. Feel like you are back in time.
Cranbrook
on a Winter Evening with the pink Alpenglow on the Fisher Peak and the
Rocky Mountains.
The
Steeples Mountains (adjacent to Fisher Peak) in the Rockies, shows pink
with early evening light in summer over Cranbrook.
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