Gold panning near your town

How these pages work

Each town page takes the town centre and finds the five closest entries in our public panning spots catalogue, wherever they are — a Fernie page may point across the Rockies into Alberta if that is closer. Distances are great-circle kilometres, not driving distance; a spot 40 km away across a mountain range can be a three-hour drive.

Where the RIVERS feed has a hydrometric station within reach, the page also shows the water level at build time with a simple "panning window" read — a heuristic that compares today's level to the last seven days, not a safety call. The Explore map has the live version.

Not near any of these towns? The province guides explain where hand panning is allowed in general terms, and the gold value calculator works anywhere.