# Liard River Hot Springs: reporting source note
Checked October 4, 2026. Article: https://newsforbc.com/liard-river-hot-springs-northern-bc-travel-guide.html

## Lead and media
- Supplied URL: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DwcmEXXVb/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Canonical Reel: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1100887802310389
- Uploader: Curiocity Vancouver. Extractor publication date: September 30, 2026. Caption credits “olga🌟”.
- Original captured: 22.066667 seconds, AV1 1440×2560 plus AAC. Public derivative: H.264/AAC 720×1280, faststart, entire clip; original audio, captions and branding retained. Filming dates not verified.
- Automatic transcript checked against frame captions; corrected Liard spelling and obvious recognition errors. Final narration includes “and so are the hot springs.” On-screen captions specify 42–52°C. No new medical benefit claim adopted.

## Official source and current-state check
https://bcparks.ca/liard-river-hot-springs-park/
Rendered live page: “Open, check advisories (1)”. The single returned public advisory is “Electric wildlife fence”, posted April 6, 2021, access status Open. It is an ongoing informational notice, not a newly issued closure. Official rendered text and underlying advisory/park-feature API responses retained in the private capture folder.
- Kilometre 765 Alaska Highway; approximately 60 km north of Muncho Lake Park.
- BC Parks describes Canada’s second-largest hot spring; Alpha Pool 42–52°C; year-round operation subject to advisories.
- Pool 07:00–22:30, last admission before 22:00; gate 07:00–23:00.
- Live fee text: May 1 to Thanksgiving; $5 adult/$3 child/$10 family. Annual $10 adult/$20 family. Day-use payments cash/credit/debit. Camping section separately says on-site cash-only.
- Important retrieval discrepancy: web_extract surfaced older May 1–September 30 wording. Direct HTML and the rendered live page both say Thanksgiving. The article follows the live source, not the stale extract.
- 2026 campground reservations listed May 1–October 12. The table also displays the previous winter date range; no guarantee of future dates or live site availability is made. Off-season reduced services and water taps shut off.
- No lifeguards, stay on boardwalk, no soap/shampoo/cleaning products in or near spring, wildlife safety and pet/cycling restrictions.

## Travel/history context
- Destination BC / Julia Crawford: https://www.supernaturalbc.com/stories/hot-springs-in-the-great-wilderness/ (current successor to HelloBC). Regional travel, approximately 300 km northwest of Fort Nelson, Kaska Dena/Tū Tīkōn attribution and wetland ecology. An older HelloBC “Don’t Miss” page returned 404 and was not used as current authority. Border-distance wording varies between travel sources; no precise independently verified border distance is asserted by NewsForBC.
- Lodge across highway: https://www.liardhotspringslodgeandrvpark.ca/about-us — local commercial source says 140 km from the border; explicitly attributed in article. Not used for park rules.
- Province winter-driving guidance: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/driving-and-cycling/traveller-information/seasonal/winter-driving — winter weather from October and signed tire/chain obligations.
- https://www.drivebc.ca/ is a reader action link. No claim that the road is currently clear/open and no route-specific road assessment performed.

## Limits
Vancouver 20h46 drive is the Reel caption’s estimate, not independently timed or adopted as a safe itinerary. Source filming dates, present pool temperature and future travel conditions are not verified. Indigenous context attributed to Destination BC; BC Parks cautions that its history remains incomplete. Not sponsored. No social accounts posted to.

## Duplicate check
No matching Liard River / exact Reel ID / share token in the remote site-root HTML pages; local article scan and live discovery scan did not identify a matching travel article. Published a new standalone travel feature.