Miette Hot Springs below. Ashlar's Ridge in the background.
Miette Hot Springs are commercially developed hot springs in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, between the towns of Hinton and Jasper. The pool is outdoors and offers visitors a view of the surrounding Fiddle River Valley.
The complex is at the end of the 17-kilometre (11mi) seasonal Miette Road off of Highway 16, near the east gate of the park.[1] It has two hot pools, kept at approximately 40°C (104°F), and two cold plunge pools of different temperatures.[2]
History
Postcard of Miette Hot Springs from shortly after the aquacourt opened.
In the 19th century, Indigenous people showed fur traders the Sulphur Creek springs.[3]
In 1934, the government of Canada began construction of an automobile road and pool as part of a federal Great Depression relief program. It was completed in 1938.[5][3] A 1962 pamphlet from the National Parks Branch described the facilities as being, "equipped with a large pool, plunges, steam-rooms, and dressing accommodation."[6]
Thermal spring properties
Source of the spring, Miette Hot Springs
There are three springs and several minor seeps above the ruins of the 1938 pool. David M. Baird in 1963 reported that the hottest was about 52°C (126°F).[7] Though the temperatures fluctuate seasonally by as much as 20°C (68°F) (snow melt during spring mixes with the spring water underground and cools it),[8] the average temperature at the surface is 51.2°C (124.2°F). The spring waters are rich in sulphate, carbonate, strontium, and calcium.[9]
↑ Taylor, C.J. (2007). "The Changing Habitat of Jasper Tourism". In MacLaren, I.S. (ed.). Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries in the Human History of the Upper Athabasca. Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta Press. p. 200. ISBN 9780888644831.
↑ Taylor, C.J. (2007). "The Changing Habitat of Jasper Tourism". In MacLaren, I.S. (ed.). Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries in the Human History of the Upper Athabasca. Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta Press. p. 209. ISBN 9780888644831.
↑ Mineral Hot Springs In The National Parks Of Canada. Roger Duhamel, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery. 1962. p.4.
↑ Baird, David M. (1963). Jasper National Park, Alberta: Behind the mountains and glaciers. Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal: The Geological Survey of Canada. pp.58, 59.
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