Halfway Hot Springs

Category: Hot Springs-soakable

GPS GeoCoords: 50.505210,-117.784859

A woodland setting, with comfortable soaking boxes and decks made of salvaged wood. There's a camping area nearby and an outhouse. The water comes out of a pipe at much too hot a temperature to soak in. You can control the flow, and add river water or snow to cool it down if necessary. There should be a bucket nearby. Elevation: 2,400 feet.

Halfway Hot Springs located on the banks of the Halfway river, approx. 15 miiles north of Nakusp on Hwy. #23. Take Highway 23 from Nakusp. Just before the Halfway River bridge, on the right (east) side of the road is a logging road, which is not usually plowed in the winter.

After you've crossed the St. Leon Creek bridge, watch for a forest service road with a stop sign at the end on the right hand side (going north). Turn right onto that road. There should be a bright yellow sign up on a tree on the right hand side that reads "Halfway Road". After about 6miles an old skidder trail will run across. Park there and follow the trail down to the river (about 300 yards). The small pool (fitting about 5 people) is located near the river, and VERY hot. Some people bring a container in order to poor water out of the river into the pool to cool it down.

There is also an Upper Halfway River Hot Springs that are supposed to be better but I'm still trying to get the location of them out of my source.