Know Before You Go

2025 Current Travel Advisories & Major Events:

Highway 1
July 2 – August 2 – Expect 30 minute closures between 7pm and 8am and 2 hour closures from 2:30-4:30 am due to construction work between Illecillewaet Brake Check and MacDonald Snowshed for 3 km, W of Glacier National Park.

BC Wildfire Services
There are currently NO Wildfires of Note in the Kootenay Rockies region.

BC Parks closures
Purcell Wilderness Conservancy is partially closed.
Top of the World Park is closed.
Valhalla Park has some areas closed.

Takkakaw Falls Campground – Yoho National Park
Area closure due to bear management.

Kootenay & Yoho National Parks
All waterbodies in these parks are closed to watercraft and angling to reduce the spread of aquatic invasive species, including whirling disease.
In effect until March 31, 2026.