Photo: Lindsay Marie StewartKaslo, BC

BT700 Kaslo

Challenging Demanding on several fronts at once, or a lot of riding on busy roads.

Difficulty Our overall read of how demanding a route is. We score surface roughness, climbing, singletrack, and how far it runs from services. The route publisher's own rating, a lot of busy road riding, or sheer scale can push the tier up, never down.

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An 85 km BT700 leg with one of BC's more memorable trail moments: a hand-pulled cable-car river crossing on the Galena Trail out of New Denver. From there the Wagon Trail runs rough and chunky into Kaslo, then paved highway follows Kootenay Lake south to Balfour, with about 2,100 m of climbing along the way. Route created by Matt Kadey of BT 700 Bikepacking.

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Fast-road stretches#

We believe these are the fast, unprotected roads on this route. We can tell you which roads and roughly how far, but not the order you will ride them. If you see an error, tell us and we'll fix it.

about 25 km of Highway 31 · near Riondel
about 5 km of Kaslo-New Denver Highway · near Three Forks

☕Stops worth stopping for36 along this route

S.S. Moyie National Historic Site: World's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler (1898), a National Historic Site on Kaslo's waterfront. · Kaslo

Ainsworth Hot Springs Resort: natural mineral hot spring pools including a remarkable 150-foot horseshoe cave ... used for healing by the Ktunaxa people since time immemorial. · Ainsworth Hot Springs

Japanese Canadian Museum: Museum of the WWII Japanese Canadian internment, in the Kaslo building where internees lived. · Kaslo

The Langham: Provincial Heritage Site in Kaslo: galleries, a 70-seat theatre, and the internment museum. · Kaslo