Popular for sightseeing and exploration, the area contains waterfalls, underground stream outlets, birds and plant life.

[1] While visually striking and unusual, slot canyons are a common occurrence within the northern Rocky Mountains.

These canyons show the characteristics of karst topography and are common in this region due to the easily soluble nature of the limestone.

Flowing out of Medicine Lake, the Maligne River flows about 15 kilometers upstream as a full size river, but as a losing stream, quickly disappears into seeps in the ground and completely vanishes from the surface not far from the lake for most of the year.

The smaller streams that feed the valley below that point rebuild the river by the time it reaches the top of the canyon.