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
- $8.55 (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
- $16.25 (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
- $18.45 (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).
THE ATLAS is a locally operated, visitor-supported site, with no operational support from any level of government.