All BC Hot Springs
Every hot spring in this directory is fact-checked against official sources — BC Parks, Parks Canada, Recreation Sites and Trails BC and the operators themselves. Closures are tracked so you never drive three hours to a locked gate.
Kootenay Rockies
Radium, Fairmont, Ainsworth, Nakusp and the wild soaks between them — BC’s hot springs heartland, where mineral water and mountain highways meet.
Lussier Hot Springs
Free riverside rock pools in Whiteswan Lake Park, reached by a short steep trail.
Radium Hot Springs
Parks Canada’s famous canyon pools in Kootenay National Park — open year-round.
Fairmont Hot Springs
Canada’s largest natural mineral hot pools, with 39°C soaking and mountain views.
Ainsworth Hot Springs
Wade through a 46-metre horseshoe cave of steaming water above Kootenay Lake.
Halcyon Hot Springs
Lithia-rich pools terraced above Upper Arrow Lake, north of Nakusp.
Nakusp Hot Springs
The Kootenays’ friendly village-owned pools in a cedar forest — a local institution.
Canyon Hot Springs
Seasonal family resort between Revelstoke and Glacier’s peaks, open May–September.
Halfway River Hot Springs
Upgraded wild pools and forest camping between Nakusp and Revelstoke.
Dewar Creek Hot Springs
A serious wilderness hike to scalding springs and exceptionally sensitive wildlife habitat.
Ram Creek Warm Springs
Warm (not hot) springs inside an ecological reserve — look, don’t soak.
Buhl Creek Hot Springs (Skookumchuck Creek)
Rustic creekside pools that only run hot in late summer and fall.
Fraser Valley & Sea to Sky
Harrison’s lakeside pools plus the rugged Lillooet valley springs within reach of Vancouver — the closer you get, the rougher the road.
Harrison Hot Springs
The closest mineral soak to Vancouver — lakeside village with a public mineral pool.
Clear Creek Hot Springs
Three rustic tubs hidden in old-growth forest up a rough 4×4 road off Harrison Lake.
Sloquet Hot Springs
Steaming cascades spill into riverside rock pools deep in the Lillooet valley.
T’sek Hot Springs (Skookumchuck)
St’át’imc-operated riverside springs and campground — currently closed to visitors.
Keyhole Hot Springs (Pebble Creek)
Dramatic canyon-side pools — closed indefinitely after wildfire damage.
Meager Creek Hot Springs
Once BC’s biggest wild soak — closed indefinitely by landslides and wildfire.
Pitt River Hot Springs
A boat, a bike and a rope descent — BC’s most pristine soak, earned the hard way.
Vancouver Island
A geothermal waterfall pouring into the Pacific at Hot Springs Cove — reached by boat or floatplane out of Tofino.
Northern BC
Liard River’s boardwalk pools, the sacred springs of Haida Gwaii, and the dormant resort at Lakelse.
Liard River Hot Springs
Canada’s second-largest hot spring — boardwalk through a boreal swamp to 42–52°C pools.
G̱andll K’in Gwaay.yaay (Hotspring Island)
Haida Watchmen host soakers on a sacred island in Gwaii Haanas.
Lakelse (Mount Layton) Hot Springs
The Northwest’s historic resort springs — closed, with a geothermal future in discussion.