Toad River Hot Springs Provincial Park

Toad River Hot Springs Provincial Park is a remote protected area in northern British Columbia within the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area, centered on thermal springs near the meeting of the Toad and Racing rivers. Its hot springs are not developed for soaking, and bathing is discouraged because the area is heavily muddied. Those mudflats are ecologically important as a mineral lick used by moose and other wildlife. Set on an active floodplain within the Muskwa Foothills ecosection, the park preserves a rare hot-springs environment shaped in part by regular fire. Its importance lies chiefly in conserving this unusual thermal ecosystem within a vast intact wilderness.

British Columbia · Canada