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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Day Trips & Getaways
Harrison Hot Springs: A Lakeside Soak Getaway
Ninety minutes east, a mineral-fed pool town where the lake is sandy, the mountains are misty, and your shoulders finally drop.
Day Trips & Getaways
Ninety minutes east, a mineral-fed pool town where the lake is sandy, the mountains are misty, and your shoulders finally drop.
Harrison Hot Springs exists to remind you that 90 minutes is not a long drive when what's waiting is a tiny resort village built entirely around two natural hot springs and a sandy lakefront. The whole town smells faintly of minerals, which is either romantic or educational depending on how you come at it, and the result is pools fed by those springs with the mountains going misty above you. The lakefront is a proper sandy lagoon with paddleboards in summer. It's the closest thing to a Banff soak you'll find without the four-hour drive and the crowds. Come for the steam and stay for the slow: an afternoon nap, a lakeside dinner, a second soak after dark. The plan writes itself. You just have to show up.
door to door
~1 hr 30 min by car
from Vancouver
130 km
how long
Weekend
best window
Year-round
Hwy 1 east from Vancouver to Exit 135 (Agassiz/Harrison Hot Springs), then north over the Agassiz-Rosedale Bridge and up Hwy 9 into the village (~130 km, 90 min, no tolls). The final lakefront approach along Esplanade Ave is the postcard moment.
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