This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

The Best Attractions In Balfour

x
The Rayside-Balfour Canadians are a Junior A ice hockey team from Rayside-Balfour, Ontario, Canada. They are a part of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League .
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Filter Attractions:

The Best Attractions In Balfour

  • 1. Kootenay Lake Ferry Balfour
    The Kootenay Lake Ferry is a ferry across the Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada. It operates between Balfour, on the west side of the lake, and Kootenay Bay, on the east side. It is the longest free scenic ferry in the world. Two ferry vessels are used, the MV Osprey 2000 and the MV Balfour.The ferry operates under contract to the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and is free of tolls. A single vessel operates throughout the year, with 10 departures from Balfour between 0630 and 2140, returning from Kootenay Bay between 0710 and 2220. The second vessel operates in summer only, providing an extra 5 crossings in either direction. The crossing is about 8 kilometres in length, and takes 35 minutes.The Osprey 2000 normally operates the main service, and carries a maximum of 80...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 2. Balfour Golf Course Balfour
    Robert Louis Stevenson was a British novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said that Stevenson seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 3. Kokanee Creek Provincial Park Balfour
    Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park is one of the oldest provincial parks in British Columbia, established in 1922. The park has an area of 320.35 km2 and is located in the Selkirk Mountains in the West Kootenays region of BC. The park has three glaciers that feed over 30 alpine lakes which are the headwaters of many creeks. There are five access roads entering the park, which were developed as mining and forestry roads along the major drainages. The nearest towns are Nelson, Ainsworth, Kaslo and Slocan City . Pierre Trudeau's youngest son Michel, was killed in an avalanche in 1998 while skiing at this park .
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 5. Kimberley Alpine Resort Kimberley
    Kimberley Alpine Resort is a ski resort located in Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the Purcell Mountains, on the east face of North Star Hill. The ski season starts in mid December and runs until early April. The resort maintains 80 runs and 5 liftsystems: a high-speed quad chair lift , a triple chair , a double chair , a T-bar and a magic carpet, leading to a total lift capacity of 6,452 skiers per hour.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 6. The SS Moyie National Historic Site Kaslo
    The Canadian Pacific Railway , also known formerly as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railroad incorporated in 1881. The railroad is owned by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001.Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, it owns approximately 20,000 kilometres of track all across Canada and into the United States, stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, and as far north as Edmonton. Its rail network also serves Minneapolis-St. Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and New York City in the United States. The railway was originally built between Eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885 , fulfilling a promise extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871. It was Can...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 9. Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area Creston
    The Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area is a Canadian river delta wetland and Wildlife Management Area near Creston in south-central British Columbia, on the floodplain of the Kootenay River at the south end of Kootenay Lake. Predominantly marshland, it was classified as a wetland of international importance on February 21, 1994, and is also a globally significant Important Bird Area. It is one of the few significant agricultural areas of the province, and is in the Montane Cordillera. It stretches north along Kootenay Lake for approximately 20 km, and south to the United States border. It is both the only breeding site of the Forster's tern and the only site with leopard frogs in the province, as well as one of the few Canadian habitats for the Coeur D'Alene salamander. Creston Valley...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Balfour Videos

Menu