Harrison Hot Springs’ new visitor centre includes the Sasquatch Museum – a place to learn about local Indigenous culture and folklore (including the Sasquatch).
For the attraction’s official website, visit the Tourism Harrison website.
TIP: The Harrison region is a great place to visit any time of the year. It’s especially beautiful and interesting, however, in autumn. That’s when the leaves are changing colour, the region looks stunning, and there are hundreds of migratory eagles in the area!
Harrison Hot Springs Visitor Centre & Sasquatch Museum
The town of Harrison Hot Springs is well-known for its natural beauty (including the famous hot springs). The area is also the home of the Sts’ailes First Nation. The town’s new visitor centre opened in 2024 and includes a museum that showcases the culture and folklore of the Sts’ailes and other Coast Salish peoples. There was a tiny museum at the visitor centre’s former location. The new museum, however, is about three times larger than it was before! It’s still not a large museum, but it is very interesting.
The Sasquatch Museum includes a special focus on the eponymous mythological creature who is also sometimes called Big Foot. The museum is completely free to visit and enjoy!
Location and Hours
The Harrison Visitor Centre & Sasquatch Museum is located at 499 Hot Spring Road. It’s on the right side of the road as you drive in from the highway. There is parking at the back as well as more on the street.
For most of the year the building is open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. During July and August, however, it’s open Mondays to Thursdays from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and on Fridays to Sundays from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm.
The Visitor Centre is closed for a week or so during the December holiday season. In 2024 that’s from December 24th until January 2nd, 2025. Future years will likely be similar.
Visit tourismharrison.com for the museum’s official website.
The Sasquatch Museum
The Sasquatch Museum isn’t the biggest museum around, but it’s a good way to learn about local culture and folklore! The exhibits are mostly about the legend of the Sasquatch but there are other displays as well.
Exhibits include a Sts’ailes Longhouse room, as well as displays of local wildlife, Indigenous artifacts and Sasquatch carvings and foot castings. There is also a massive display of a sturgeon fish and a film about the legendary Sasquatch and its history with Sts’ailes People.
The name “Sasquatch” is believed to have been created from the Sts’ailes word “Sa:sq’ets”, which means “hairy man”. Members of the Sts’ailes Nation see the Sasquatch as a caretaker of the land and a being that can move back and forth between the human realm and the spirit realm.
For the attraction’s official website, visit the Tourism Harrison website.
Other Information
For more information about the attraction, visit the Harrison Visitor Centre & Sasquatch Museum website.
The museum is very accessible. It’s in a prominent, central location. You drive right past it on your way into town. The venue is wheelchair-friendly. There is also braille on some of the signage.
Other museums to check out while in the area include Kilby Historic Site in Harrison Mills (which is about a 20-minute drive away) and the Harrison-Agassiz Museum in Agassiz which you likely drove right past on your way to Harrison Hot Springs.
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