Ferine is a cute town and a weekend getaway from Calgary. Fernie is approx. 3 hours from Calgary, a drive through the beautiful Crowsnest pass. Drive to Fernie can be down either on cowboy trail highway 22 or Highway 2 south. Cowboy trail is the scenic route, and we took that route.
On the way we stopped at Diamond Valley town for a quick stroll to explore this sweet place with a lot of history. This is a town combined from older towns Turney Valley and Black Daimond. Town has some preserved old buildings and there are writings/pictures on these buildings that we can read about its history.
Lundbreck falls
A drive to Waterton or Fernie is incomplete without a stop at the beautiful Lundbeck falls. In every season the falls looks so different.
Lundbreck falls !
Sparwood
Sparwood is a mining town surrounded by mountains. Titan, World’s largest tandem truck (as tall as 5.5 elephants) at Sparwood, a mining town. Titan was used in the clearing out mud and rocks from the open excavation for coal. Sparwood is one of the world largest producers of metallurgical coal that is used for making steel
Fernie town
Beautiful fernie town surrounded by mountains. Fernie gets up to 30ft of snow annually. We went for a nice little walk in the town, tired out Rocky mountain chocolates shop, checked out Arts coop with paintings from local artists.
Ferine Ski resort
A great ski resort with tons of snow always – Fernie Alpine Resort
Frank slide museum
On our way back we visited Frank slide museum. Frank slide was a massive rockslide of turtle mountain in 1903. Turtle mountain was always unstable and the natives called it the mountain that moves and never used to come near it. Miners from across the world came in and started mining inside turtle mountain for coal which increased its instability. The slide buried half of the town called Frank (in the name of Henry Frank who owned the coal company). The museum has so much of information and they have interesting movies of the incident.
A quick stop on way back:
Stay:
We stayed in Sparwood a perfect little airbnb – Basement suite
Itinerary
- Day 1: Drive from Calgary to Fernie on cowboy trail (highway 22)
- Diamond valley town
- Lundbreck falls
- Day 2 :
- Sparwood town
- Fernie skiing
- Day 3:
- Fernie skiing
- walk the town
- Day 4: Drive back
- Frank Slide Museum