TOURS
We offer 3 different tour types! Site admission tickets required for all tours; tour times are viewable after choosing Site Admission in our booking system. Pre-booking essential. Our tours fill up fast!
Train Ride
25 minutes
Walking Difficulty: Easy
- $9.25 (requires site admission ticket)
Take a ride on our antique train! Linda, our 90 year-old electric locomotive takes visitors on a surface tour around the mine site. Our expert operators ensure your safety and will entertain you with great stories and fascinating facts.
Processing Plant Tour
45 minutes
Walking Difficulty: Medium
- $16.95 (requires site admission ticket)
Explore the last wooden tipple (coal processing plant) in Canada. Learn how coal was sorted, stored, and shipped in this unique processing plant. Walk the gantry – a gradual ascent - 125 feet up to the top of the Tipple to learn about the reality young boys faced: that the dangers of the surface were a training ground for the formidable "belly of the beast". Fully enclosed shoes are required for this tour.
Mine Portal Hike
1 hour 15 minutes
Walking Difficulty: Hard
- $19.25 (requires site admission ticket)
Join an Atlas interpreter on a 75 minute hike exploring the Atlas’ underground and upper site spaces. This tour involves heights, enclosed spaces and many rugged stairs. Sturdy, fully enclosed shoes are required. Ages 6+ (no exceptions).
SPECIALTY TOUR - FALL EQUINOX ROCK DUMP HIKE
Step off the beaten path and follow the Miners’ Trail up the valley walls for an insider’s look at the Atlas Coal Mine’s outdoor operations. Along the way, discover how machinery, supplies, and timbers were hauled to the mine. View the Atlas’ restored rotary dump and learn about its context to the overall haulage systems. A plant expert will also share fascinating insights into the areas rewilding and the plants reclaiming the landscape.
THE ATLAS is a locally operated, visitor-supported site, with no operational support from any level of government.