Rossland

Perched at over 1,000 metres in the Monashee Mountains, Rossland traded its gold mining boom for a second life as one of Canada's premier mountain biking and ski towns.

Red Mountain Resort, just outside town, has produced more Canadian Olympic ski racers per capita than almost anywhere in the country, and the surrounding Seven Summits and Kootenay Columbia trail networks have made Rossland a genuine mountain biking destination through the summer months.

The Rossland Museum and the historic Le Roi Mine site preserve the gold rush story that first built the town in the 1890s, and the compact, walkable downtown still carries much of that era's brick and timber character.

As one of the highest elevation cities in BC, Rossland draws powder snow in winter and cool, dry summers, a four season outdoor lifestyle that keeps drawing skiers, riders and remote workers who have discovered they can live where they play.