Kootenay National Park is located in southeastern British Columbia Canada covering 1,406 km2 in the Canadian Rockies and forms part of a World Heritage Site. The park ranges in elevation from 918 m at the south-west park entrance to 3,424 m at Deltaform Mountain.

Kootenay forms one of the four contiguous mountain parks in the Canadian Rockies; the other three being Banff National Park directly to the east, Yoho National Park directly to the north and Jasper National Park which does not share a boundary with Kootenay National Park.

While the park is open all year, the major tourist season lasts from June to September. Most campgrounds are open from early May to late September.

The park takes its name from the Kootenay River, one of the two major rivers which flow through the park, the other being the Vermillion River. While the Vermillion River is completely contained within the park, the Kootenay River has its headwaters just outside of the park boundary, flows through the park into the Rocky Mountain Trench, eventually joining the Columbia River. The Banff-Windermere Highway, #93 follows the path of both rivers through the park.



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