Visit Harrison Hot Springs Community to enjoy a weekend getaway, or a week long vacation. It’s a small but busy resort community located just five hours from Vancouver, three hours from Seattle. Enjoy resort amenities, stay at a B&B, rent a condo or cottage, or bring a tent and your own boat too. Explore the outdoors, peruse art galleries and souvenir shops, dine at specialty restaurants or coffee shops.
Water fun is the best kind of family fun. There’s 2 water parks in the area, a Floating Water Park that replicates Wipeout, and the Bridal Falls Water Park with slides, tube rides, and bumper boats. There’s also boats and kayaks to rent, and even white water rafting tours.
Hop a boat for a scenic tour. Hike the shoreline. Board the Air Tram for a scenic ride over the valley and through 7 mountain tunnels. Book a fishing charter and bring home salmon, steelhead trout, or sturgeon.
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.
Enjoy local festivals from April’s Tulips of the Valley festival, to December’s Christmas in the Village. The First Nation Sts’ailes participate in war canoe races and Sasquatch story telling during Sasquatch days in June. For 10 days in July, art and music are featured with an arts and crafts market. International musicians perform at Memorial Hall and on the beach. Also in July, come to this bustling little village to celebrate Canada Day, a Dragon Boat Regatta, and a Slow Food Cycle Tour of farm country. Enjoy music on the beach while enjoying the final days of summer on Labor Day weekend. Oktoberfest is the theme of the Harrison Beer Festival. Eco-tourists should return in November for the Bald Eagle Watch Festival.
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.
Surrounded by mountains and sitting on the site of a glacier fed lake with 2 natural hot springs, many come to the Harrison Hot Springs Community seeking the health and wellness benefits of the warm mineral waters, and the luxury of a resort and spa. Those who love outdoor activities find hiking and biking trails, all kinds of water sports, all types of winter activities. Art and music lovers are pleasantly surprised to find a vibrant art and music community.
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