Friday 27 December 2013

Discover Harrison Hot Springs Community

By Harriett Crosby


Harrison Hot Springs Community is a small but bustling resort community. Just 3 hours north of Seattle and 5 hours east of Vancouver, it's a great choice for a weekend getaway or a vacation. Stay at a campsite, a B&B, or a resort hotel. Rent a cottage or a condo. Bring your boat and use the public boat launch. Enjoy the warm mineral waters and resort amenities, outdoor activities, art and shopping, restaurants and cafes.

Harrison Lake is a great place for all kinds of water fun including the Floating Water Park and Bridal Falls Water Park for family fun. Enjoy bumper boat fights and banana tube rides. Rent paddle boats or power boats. There's water skiing, white water rafting and ocean kayaking.

Eco tourists can join guided hiking tours or boating tours. Hell's Gate Air Tram is an exciting adventure taking sightseers through 7 mountain tunnels. Canada is known for its wonderful fishing and Harrison Lake is no exception. Join a charter or rent a power boat to fish for salmon, sturgeon, or steelhead trout.

Visit local farms and orchards open to the public. There's a chicken and turkey farm, a dairy farm, a hazelnut orchard. Visit a 1906 general store museum at Kilby Historic Site. Stop at The Back Porch, a local pottery studio and collectibles store. Attend monthly art shows featuring area artists at the Ranger Station Public Art Gallery. The local choir performs twice a year. There's even stock car racing at Agassiz Speedway.

The festival season starts with the Tulips of the Valley Festival in April. June is Sasquatch Days. The local First Nation band returns to the area for war canoe races, a salmon barbecue, and Sasquatch storytelling. July is busy with Canada Day, the Harrison Art Festival, the Dragon Boat Regatta, and the Slow Food Cycle Tour. The Art Festival is 10 days of international music at the Hall and on the Beach, and a fabulous art market. Enjoy Bands at the Beach over Labor Day weekend. October is the Harrison Beer Festival and November the Bald Eagle Watch Festival. And of course December is Christmas in the Village.

The relaxing and healing hot springs can be enjoyed at the public pool as well as at the luxury resort. First Nation residents believed in the spiritual as well as medical healing properties of the famous hot springs. Europeans discovered the warm mineral waters in the mid-1800's. It's been a popular spa destination ever since. Visitors enjoy immersion in the warm waters, massages, body wraps, facials, manicures, and pedicures.

If you love winter sports, Harrison Hot Springs is a perfect destination. Surrounded by mountains, winter sport enthusiasts enjoy skiing, back country skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, dog sledding. And what better way to end a day in the snow than a stop at the Hot Springs.

Harrison Hot Springs community is located on a lake, next to the hot springs, and surrounded by mountains. Find brochures and maps at the Visitors Centre. Explore Provincial Parks. Enjoy water activities, hiking, and biking. Come back in winter for fun in the snow activities. Don't neglect the art community with its music concerts and art galleries.




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