Canal Flats

Canal Flats is best known in British Columbia for lying beside Columbia Lake, the headwater of the Columbia River. At the narrow divide between the Columbia and Kootenay river systems, the community occupies an important geographical hinge in the Rocky Mountain Trench, a long valley through southeastern British Columbia. Its name recalls the Baillie-Grohman Canal, built in the late 1880s to link Columbia Lake and the Kootenay River for navigation; the ambitious route saw little practical use. Today, Canal Flats is a base for exploring the Columbia Valley’s lakes, wetlands and forest roads. View additional webcams nearby to better understand how Canal Flats and the Columbia Valley relate to their surroundings.

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