Marble Canyon (Canadian Rockies)

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

Marble Canyon surrounds 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.[1] South of the canyon on Highway 93 is Numa Falls on the Vermilion River.

As described by Canadian Alpine Journal in 1913, "[Tokumm Creek] joins Vermilion 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