Canadian Museum of Rail Travel
Railway museum in Cranbrook, British Columbia.
Attractions in Cranbrook
Photo: Fort Steele, Ken Thomas (Public domain)2 places to visit in Cranbrook, led by Canadian Museum of Rail Travel
For a trip from Cranbrook, Fort Steele is 15 km away. Both places to visit on our list are inside Cranbrook’s municipal boundary; none are within 5 km of its edge.
In Cranbrook
2
inside the municipal boundary
Within 5 km
0
of the town’s edge
Museums & galleries
2
in or near town
Best known
The headline places in Cranbrook
Each has a page of its own: what it is, who runs it, the weather month by month and what else is near it.
The map
Mapped around Cranbrook
The dashed line is Cranbrook’s municipal boundary; orange marks its middle (where most people live). Numbers match the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors · Statistics Canada 2021 outline
By kind
What there is to see
Every one of them is among museums or galleries.
Museums & galleries 2 museums2 in town
Green: inside Cranbrook. Grey: within 5 km of its edge.
Every place
Everything on the list
Both are inside Cranbrook.
The 2 inside Cranbrook come first, best known first; then the places within 5 km, close and well known first. Provincial and city parks are on the Outdoors page instead.
Historic places in Cranbrook → · Parks, footpaths and green space in Cranbrook →
Big names nearby
Days out
Places well known beyond Cranbrook (Wikipedia articles in several languages, published visitor counts, or a Parks Canada property), close and famous first. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the town.
Seeing Cranbrook: questions
What are the main attractions in Cranbrook?
Inside Cranbrook’s municipal boundary, the one place on our list is Cranbrook History Centre.
Is there a Parks Canada property near Cranbrook?
Our list has none in Cranbrook or within 5 km of it.
How is this list made?
A single list is built from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, ODCAF and the heritage registers, each site counted once. To appear, a historic building must show it takes visitors (hours, a fee, a website, a heritage operator, a Wikipedia article), and hotels, restaurants and tour operators are left out. Places in the town’s 2021 outline, or within 5 km of its edge, are the ones shown.
Places to visit: Canada publishes no open tourism list, so this one is assembled from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), Wikidata (CC0), Statistics Canada’s ODCAF museums and galleries (2020, Open Government Licence – Canada), the federal and Québec heritage registers and CPCAD’s national parks, and it reflects what mappers and editors have recorded. Forts, houses, lighthouses and churches count only with a sign that visitors are welcome. Places sit in each town’s 2021 census outline; visitor counts are Wikidata’s latest, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- Fort Steele: Ken Thomas, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).