Coal Creek is a
ghost town
A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...
near
Fernie, British Columbia
Fernie is a city in the Elk Valley (British Columbia), Elk Valley area of the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, Canada, located on British Columbia provincial highway 3, BC Highway 3 on the western approaches to the Crows ...
, Canada. During the 1950s, residents left the town due to the closure of a mine. Some parts of the town remain, but most have been overtaken by forest. On May 22, 1902, an explosion in a mine left 128 dead in one of the worst mining disasters in Canadian history.
Coal Creek, the town's namesake, is a tributary of the
Elk River which it joins in Fernie, British Columbia.
Coal Creek Mountain is next to
Castle Mountain
Castle Mountain () is a mountain located within Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, approximately halfway between Banff and Lake Louise. It is the easternmost mountain of the Main Ranges in the Bow Valley and sits astride the Castl ...
near Fernie.
References
Mine Disasters
External links
Crowsnest.bc.ca Coal Creek
Ghost towns in British Columbia
Elk Valley (British Columbia)
Populated places in the Regional District of East Kootenay
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