A day in Golden, British Columbia

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Had a lazy morning, then went into Golden to check things out. We are early for the summer season; things don’t start kicking around here until after the next weekend. That’s a little disappointing because we wanted to ride the Gondola up to the top of the mountain where there is a restaurant and the views are suppose to be fantastic!

So, we walked through a little of the historical section and then had a late lunch out on the patio overlooking the Kicking Horse River. The most outstanding thing we saw in Golden was the pedestrian bridge over the Kicking Horse River.

During the bleak days of 9/11 the entire community of Golden, along with other volunteers joined forces and built this bridge, completely of wood.

The bridge is the longest free standing timber framed bridge in Canada, spanning 151’. The bridge weighs about 210,000 pounds and was constructed of 72,000 board feet of Douglas-Fir timbers.

The bridge connects the Rotary walking/biking trails that surround the town, and at one end of the bridge is a lovely pavilion bursting with the color of spring flowers,

which is also carried out into the town where there are baskets full of flowers hanging all over town.

After lunch, we drove up to the Kicking Horse Resort where Fran went horseback riding today. I met the lady who gives the rides and she believes they have a horse I can ride, so we are both going riding tomorrow…if it doesn’t rain. We have an alert that this area is suppose to receive heavy rains tomorrow, so we will see.