British Columbia · Remote access
Choquette Hot Springs
Choquette protects a cluster of individual hot springs in a remote northwestern landscape. BC Parks describes boat-only access, placing these springs firmly in the expedition category rather than among developed visitor pools.
Historical source coordinate; not a trailhead. Accuracy and datum have not been independently verified. Historical water readings describe source samples, not safe soaking temperatures.
Fifteen springs on the lower Stikine
Choquette Hot Springs Provincial Park protects not one spring but a collection of fifteen individual thermal springs on the Canadian side of the lower Stikine River. Protecting that cluster is precisely why the park exists.
It sits roughly 120 kilometres southwest of Telegraph Creek. There is no land access of any kind — reaching it means boat or helicopter.
Paddle down, jet boat back
Paddling is the most common way in, with the Stikine carrying trips from Telegraph Creek downriver. River tour operators based at Telegraph Creek run everything from afternoon outings to multi-day trips continuing to the Lower River and on to Wrangell, Alaska.
Because the Stikine is a serious river, the practical pattern for many visitors is to travel downstream and use a jet boat to return upriver to Telegraph Creek rather than paddling back.
Buck Choquette and the Stikine rush
The name comes from Buck Choquette, a figure of the Stikine Gold Rush, whose strike on the river helped trigger the rush that briefly filled this valley with prospectors.
Very little of that era is visible now. The lower Stikine is one of the wilder river corridors in northwest British Columbia, bordered by Great Glacier Provincial Park and reached by almost nobody who has not planned a river trip around it.
Opening hours & season
No verified visitor timetable
Access depends on land-manager permission, closures and local conditions. No published timetable should be interpreted as 24-hour access.
All times are local to the spring. Checked 2026-10-01; this is not a live opening-status display. Closure notices override regular hours.
Our take
More compelling as a geological and wilderness destination than as a simple bathing stop. The cluster is important to include in the atlas even though a visitor should not assume each source is safe or accessible.
Editorial assessment based on published information. No firsthand visit or customer score is implied.
Before you go
Sources & record notes
Geoscience BC’s 2016 compilation · 2 historical sampling records · Source name: Choquette (Stikine River Fowler). References recorded in the dataset: Souther 1973; Geoscience BC 2016-07.
Source notes: (2007 sample) Polaris Infrastructure kind permission
Sources used for this guide
- BC Parks — Choquette Hot Springs Park
- Wikipedia — Choquette Hot Springs Provincial Park
- Wikipedia — Buck Choquette
- britishcolumbia.com — river and jet boating in northwest BC
Written from the published sources above. Operator hours, access rules and closures change; the official link is authoritative.