Liard Hot Springs, BC
Fort Nelson to Liard Hot Springs, BC. 189.1 miles driven. Across the street from the campground is the Liard Hot Springs.
The hot springs is protected with an electric fence I assume to help keep the bears and wildlife out. There were even picnic tables with fences around them. I don’t know if they were just out of order or if the fences were to keep the humans safe from bears while they ate their meal.
The walk into the springs was on a boardwalk surrounded with wetlands. We were told that there was a bear in the area earlier that day.
I am not sure if I am describing it correctly, but the water is a Sulphur based water. You could smell it as you walked closer to the pool area. The water in the pool area varied in how hot it was. To the left it was “cooler” to the right it was VERY hot. I could not go very far to the right, or I would have been cooked like a lobster. There is a challenge for first timers to pick up a rock from the bottom and take it to the far right and place it on a pile of rocks. Some folks in our group did end up completing that, but I never even tried. The warm water felt great after a long day of driving.
We also had a visit from a black bear in the campground.
