The new Harrison Hot Springs Visitor Centre.
Photo: Mark Forsythe1 New Digs for Sasquatch
The mythical Sasquatch has deep spiritual and cultural meaning for the Sts'ailes people who believe Sasquatch (Sa:sq'ets) watches over the land. Red ochre paintings depicting the shape-shifting creature date back thousands of years, and Sasquatch continues to have pride of place at a newly constructed Harrison Hot Springs Visitor Centre, home to the Harrison Sasquatch Museum. Its collection includes casts of mysterious footprints, first-hand accounts, photos, maps, and conjecture about the hairy creature, also dubbed Bigfoot.
There have been more than 3,000 documented sightings in the region over the last century.