Rogers Pass between Revelstoke and Golden is not to be missed. It receives an incredible ten meters of snow each winter.
A visit to one of the many Hydroelectric Dams in the area can be fascinating and educational.
A darker side of Canada's history is examined at the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre, which preserves the stories of the more than 20,000 Japanese-Canadians interned here during the second World War.
Fort Steele is preserved as a 1890s pioneer boomtown. Just north of Cranbrook.
The Le Roi Gold Mine and Rossland Museum tell the story of the Kootenay gold rush.
The Burgess Shale Fossils, Yoho National Park. A UNESCO World Heritage Site that showcases the world's finest Cambrian-aged fossils of soft-bodied marine organisms.
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