This hotspring ecosystem is considered to be the second most significant in Canada. Relaxation seeps into your body as you ease into the second largest hot spring in Canada. Two hot springs, Alpha and Beta Pool, give the traveler a heavenly wellness experience. Their water temperature ranges from 42 degrees C to 52 degrees C. Beta pool is beyond Alpha and is larger and deeper. In winter the northern lights lighten the sky. A boardwalk leads via swamping marshes into the hot spring pools.
The warm percolating waters have created a fascinating micro-environment where over 250 species of boreal forest plants thrive. Sundews, butterworts, and fourteen species of orchids delicately spot the landscape. As well, the two degree (celcius) increase in air temperature caused by the springs creates a niche for plant species not usually found at this landscape.
The lush vegetation and warm waters in the surrounding marsh provide an excellent habitat for moose, waterfowl and shorebirds. Also Liard Hotsprings is home to a snail, the hotwater physa (Physella wrightii), and a small damselfly, the plains forktail (Ischnura damula), which lives nowhere else in British Columbia. This is also the reason why you will find the trail to Beta Pool to be closed for now.
This is the official Park Map and Camping Reservation website by BC Parks.

This hotspring ecosystem is considered to be the second most significant in Canada. Relaxation seeps into your body as you ease into the second largest hot spring in Canada. Two hot springs, Alpha and Beta Pool, give the traveler a heavenly wellness experience. Their water temperature ranges from 42 degrees C to 52 degrees C. Beta pool is beyond Alpha and is larger and deeper. In winter the northern lights lighten the sky. A boardwalk leads via swamping marshes into the hot spring pools.
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