Rogers Pass is located in Glacier National Park, British Columbia, Canada. G.N.P officially became a national park in 1886. Easily found along the Trans-Canada Hwy with a great picnic area, fantastic signs about the park, memorials, bathrooms and even a discovery centre. Unfortunately the discovery centre was not open when I came through a few weeks ago.
Reports say there are over 100 avalanche paths that face the train tracks and Hwy around here, so military and parks Canada have an interesting program to combat that. They use artillery and explosives to trigger the avalanches at specific times. For that reason, if you're looking to ski around Rogers Pass you need a special winter permit so you can be in the loop for what areas are closed and when. Rogers pass is known to be a world class backcountry skiing and snowboarding area. It certainly looks beautiful and exciting from the Trans-Canada Highway that leads right through the pass.

Rogers Pass is known to get an average of 40 feet of snow a year! That's a lot of guaranteed fun if you're a backcountry skier.

Home to a historical abandoned Railway that you can hike along seasonally. Although it is closed at the moment for other reasons. The railroad has an interesting but dark history here in Rogers Pass. From initial triumph to horror stories. Feats of engineering to complete chaos. March 4, 1910, Canada's worst avalanche disaster took place here.
Reports online say 58-62 railway men were killed in this terrible natural disaster. Found frozen standing in place, literally frozen in time. They had to build a tunnel through the mountains to avoid these repeat avalanches covering the tracks and men risking their lives so frequently. The Connaught Tunnel was once Canada's longest train tunnel at over 8km long through Mount MacDonald. But now the Macdonald tunnel is the longest at 14km and located in the same area.
Memorials at the Rogers Pass area tell of explorers stories, trial and error, and devastation.
Definitely an interesting road trip pit stop while traveling through this area of B.C. as you learn more about Rogers Pass. Don't forget to ring the bell, and rake the memory garden if the weather permits. Rogers Pass is a National Historic Site of Canada.