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The 154 km (96 mi) long Kootenay section of Highway 3A begins at Castlegar, where it leaves Highway 3 and travels 20 km (12 mi) northeast to South Slocan, where Highway 6 merges onto Highway 3A. The two highways proceed east for 22 km (14 mi) to Nelson , where Highway 6 diverges south. 34 km (21 mi) northeast of Nelson, Highway 3A reaches ...
Kootenay Pass, known locally as "the Salmo–Creston" is a mountain pass in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.The pass summit divides the drainage basin of the Pend d'Oreille River on the west (via tributaries Stagleap Creek, the South Salmo River and the Salmo River) from that of Kootenay River/Kootenay Lake to the east (via tributary Summit Creek).
British Columbia Highway 3, officially named the Crowsnest Highway, is an 841-kilometre (523 mi) highway that traverses southern British Columbia, Canada.It runs from the Trans-Canada Highway at Hope to Crowsnest Pass at the Alberta border and forms the western portion of the interprovincial Crowsnest Highway that runs from Hope to Medicine Hat, Alberta.
Hwy 93 at Alberta border at Vermilion Pass: Banff–Windermere Highway, Kootenay Highway 1958 Current — Hwy 95: 329 204 US 95 at U.S. border at Kingsgate: Hwy 1 (TCH) in Golden: Kootenay–Columbia Highway 1957 Current — Hwy 95A: 55 34 Hwy 3 / Hwy 95 in Cranbrook: Hwy 93 / Hwy 95 near Wasa: Kimberley Highway 1968 Current
Through the park, the highway travels northeast along the Kootenay and Vermilion rivers for 93 km (58 mi) to Vermilion Pass and the Alberta border, where it is continues as Alberta Highway 93. [2] After crossing the border, the highway continues for another 11 km (7 mi) to meet the Trans-Canada Highway ( Alberta Highway 1 ) near Castle Junction .
[2] [3] Highway 6 is a north–south highway between Nelway and the Needles Ferry and an east–west highway between the Needles Ferry and Vernon; [4] it has a total length of 407 km (253 mi). [1] It first opened in 1941 and, aside from minor realignments along it's concurrences with 3 and 3A, its very winding path through the western Kootenays ...
The highway follows the Kootenay River to and area known as Kootenay Crossing, where the highway crosses the river and follows the Vermilion River. The highway follows the valley northeast and climbs up to Vermilion Pass at the Continental Divide, reaching an elevation of 1,680 m (5,510 ft). At the summit, the highway leaves both British ...
The 1860 survey defined the Purcell Mountains as the east–west divide, which geographically places Creston in East Kootenay, but conversely the nearby community of Crawford Bay in West Kootenay. Prior to the opening of the highway over the Kootenay Pass from Salmo in 1963, allowing westward travel, Creston had tended to develop cultural links ...