Marble Canyon (Canadian Rockies)

For other places with the same name, see Marble Canyon (disambiguation).
Marble Canyon

Marble Canyon is a canyon surrounding Tokumm Creek just above its confluence with the Vermilion River, at the north end of Kootenay National Park in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada.[1] South of Marble Canyon on Highway 93 is Numa Falls on the Vermillion River.

As described by Canadian Alpine Journal in 1913, "[Tokumm Creek] joins Vermillion River through a magnificent gorge, or box canyon, so narrow that at several places the fissure, for it seems little more than a crack in the rock strata, is bridged by great boulders that have become wedged across it. It was a feature well worth seeing."[2]

  1. ^ "Marble Canyon (canyon)". BC Geographical Names.
  2. ^ Canadian Alpine Journal, vol V, 1913, pp. 100–137