Situated at the scenic confluence of the Columbia and Kicking Horse rivers in the Rocky Mountain Trench (a long deep valley between the Rocky and Selkirk mountain ranges in eastern BC), Golden is located at the heart of six mountainous national parks: Yoho, Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, Glacier and Mount Revelstoke. Yoho National Park, the "adopted" park of the community, is just a half-hour drive east of Golden!