Talk a walk into the 1860s, along the Wild Horse Creek and the site of the 1864 Gold Rush.

Just a short distance from Fort Steele Heritage Town is the route of the last miles of the Dewdney Trail, the first all-Canadian route across southern British Columbia, completed in 1865. At its end is the site of Fisherville, the first town in the East Kootenay and once boasted six general stores, four saloons, numerous restaurants, and hundreds of gold miners’ shacks and tents.

Come explore their old diggings, but beware — the spirit of gold fever is still in the air.

 Fisherville Brochure