Coal Creek Heritage Trail June 2026 | Page 19

AQUATIC CENTRE
MONTANE TRAILHEAD
RIFLE RANGE
AMMONITE TRAIL learn more about Fernie and area. You might just find yourself here for a while!
MATHESON FALLS TRAIL

Breweries are an

WILL the

Essential Part of Fernie’ s Past and Present

Coal Creek

At this location, you are standing where the early Fernie

Fernie and Fort Steele Brewing Company

and Fort Steele

Kootenay Rockies Tourism / Mitch Winton photo

Heritage Trail

Brewing Company used water from

More to Explore:

the underground
The common adage in Fernie is that people

Brewery Spring

WET YOUR

to make beer that satisfied the thirst of

Fernie & District Historical Society, FMP01097

come for a short stay and end up spending a lifetime in this spectacular mountain valley. Maybe a spark of curiosity will fan a fire to

WHISTLE?

Start Your Adventure! To fully enjoy the Coal Creek Heritage Trail( CCHT) loop 23 km adventure, full of heritage treasures and beautiful nature, please start at the Fernie Aquatic Centre covered area. Once there, find an overview of the CCHT and invaluable Know Before You Go information.

FERNIE TRAILS ALLIANCE many a miner, logger, and worker in the Kootenay region. It brewed‘ Beer From the Mountains’ here from 1901-1957, satisfying Fernie’ s thirst for roughly the same time period the mine up Coal Creek operated. Burned down by the 1908 Great Fernie Fire that reduced the city to ashes, it was deemed essential and rebuilt immediately.

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Top left image: Fernie & District Historical Society, CNA-0119

AQUATIC CENTRE
MONTANE TRAILHEAD
FERNIE

To view all of the interpretive signs online and to learn more about the Coal Creek Heritage trail, scan the QR code or visit tourismfernie. com

YOU ARE HERE 22.7 km

COAL CREEK RD
RIVER RD- Closed to motorized vehicles
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Coal Creek Heritage Trail Coal Creek Heritage Trail- Phase 2 Other Trail Road
Sign Locations
Road- Closed Points of Interest

V. Croome photo

RIFLE RANGE

AMMONITE TRAIL learn more about Fernie and area. You might just find yourself here for a while!

• Wet your whistle at Historic Downtown pubs / distilleries: Fernie Taphouse, The Northern, The Brickhouse and Fernie Distillers

• Try a flight of locally brewed beer at the Fernie Brewing Company

• The Fernie Museum on 2nd Ave, Historic Downtown. Ask about the Heritage Walking Tour

•‘ Deep Dive’ into mining history at the Coal Creek Camp and RV

• Miner’ s Walk in front of Fernie City Hall

• Hosmer Mine Site and Coke Ovens

• Fernie Visitor Information Centre

• Historic Downtown Fernie

• Paleo Tour at the Sparwood Visitor Information Centre, beside the monsterous, green mine truck,“ The Titan” approx. 1 km

MATHESON FALLS TRAIL