Jumbo Glacier, British Columbia

Jumbo Glacier
Former mountain resort municipality
Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality
Location of Jumbo Glacier, British Columbia
Coordinates: 50°24′30″N 116°34′00″W / 50.40833°N 116.56667°W / 50.40833; -116.56667
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Region	East Kootenay
Incorporated	February 19, 2013[1]
Dissolved	December 13, 2021[2]
Government
• MP	Wayne Stetski
• MLA	Norm Macdonald
Elevation	1,700 m (5,600 ft)
Time zone	UTC-7 (Mountain Standard (MST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (Mountain Daylight (MDT))
Waterways	Jumbo Creek
Website	Official website

Jumbo Glacier, also known as Jumbo, was a mountain resort municipality within the Regional District of East Kootenay in southeast British Columbia, Canada between 2013 and 2021. It was approximately 55 km (34 mi) west of Invermere^[3] near the Commander Glacier and around the headwaters of Jumbo Creek in the Purcell Range of the Columbia Mountains.

Jumbo Glacier was planned to be a year-round skiing mountain resort developed in three phases at an estimated cost of $450 million.^[3] The future resort development had been the subject of controversy as a result of public opposition from the residents of the region, the Lower Kootenay First Nation and the Sinixt Nation for political, economic, and environmental reasons.^[4][5] It was the subject of the documentary, Jumbo Wild, by Patagonia and Sweetgrass Productions.^[6]

In January 2020, a plan to designate the area as an Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area was revealed instead and the remaining interest of the company formed to develop the ski resort was bought out, ultimately cancelling the development of the resort. The Government of British Columbia dissolved the Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality on December 13, 2021.