Grizzly Bear Refuge
Grizzly Bear Refuge at Kicking Horse
A large fenced refuge on Kicking Horse Mountain where you can join a guided tour to watch Buu, an orphaned grizzly bear, in her semi-wild life.
The Grizzly Bear Refuge covers about 8 hectares and is one of the largest grizzly bear refuges in the world. It is home to an orphaned grizzly named Buu. In summer, visitors ride the Kicking Horse Mountain gondola or join a guided tour partway up the mountain, where a naturalist leads you to watch the bears feed and swim from behind the fence and explains bear conservation. The tour lasts about an hour, and tickets are often sold together with the gondola. The refuge is closed during the bears' hibernation period, roughly November to April.
Opening hours
Guided tours about late May–early October
Nearby sights
- Kicking Horse Mountain Resort
- Kicking Horse River Rafting
- Cedar Lake
- Kicking Horse Pedestrian Bridge
- Golden Skybridge
- Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Centre
- Columbia Wetlands
- Mount 7 Paragliding