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Banff National Park, Alberta
Banff National Park has some of the best backpacking the Canadian Rockies offer. Here is a sampling of what you can do with five or more days and a backpack in Banff National Park. Seasonal restrictions can apply to some of these trails, so click here to make sure yours is open.
Sawback [...]
Banff National Park, Alberta
Banff National Park has some of the best backpacking the Canadian Rockies offer. Here is a sampling of what you can do with four days and a backpack in Banff National Park. Seasonal restrictions can apply to some of these trails, so click here to make sure yours is open.
Assiniboine Loop
The beauty [...]
Banff, Alberta
by John McKiernan
Staff Writer
Frustration can often ruin a holiday, even in a place as beautiful and fun as the Canadian Rockies, Banff National Park, Lake Louise, and Jasper National Park.
If you find that the hotel you have chosen has no wheelchair ramp for example, things are already off to a bad start. The following [...]
Banff National Park, Alberta
by John McKiernan
Staff Writer
There are many ways to see the Canadian Rockies and Banff National Park. However, due to its obvious mountainous terrain, some parts remain untouchable for the disabled. By no means should this stand as a restriction.
One way or another, everyone can find a way to enjoy the beauty the [...]
Three day backpacking trips in Banff National Park
Banff National Park has some of the best hiking the Canadian Rockies offer, even if all you have is three days. Here is a sampling of what you can do with a long weekend and a backpack in Banff National Park.
Lake Minnewanka
A popular early or late season hike [...]
A quick, 10-point guide to Banff’s Canadian Rockies
Get your vacation in Banff National Park and Canadian Rockies off to a running start with this easy guide. Astute readers may note that our 10-point guide actually has 11 points. Sorry. There’s just so much to do in Banff, it was hard to narrow it down.
1. Banff [...]
The Essential Canadian Rockies
Here’s one simple fact about the Canadian Rockies. Even if you had an entire lifetime, it would be nearly impossible to see everything there is in Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, Waterton National Park, Glacier National Park and Yoho National Park.
This enormous area contains hundreds of natural sites to see, trails [...]
The Canadian Rockies offer endless ways of seeing the park through various activities.
Not sure where to hike in Banff National Park? Look no further.
by Paul Peters
Editor, CanadianRockies.net
Banff National Park covers a 6,641 square km (2,564 square mi.) area of unparalleled mountain scenery in the heart of the magnificent Canadian Rockies.
Besides glaciers, icefields, some of the tallest peaks and most beautiful lakes in the Canadian Rockies, Banff National [...]
From Lake Louise to Jasper
by Paul Peters
CanadianRockies.net Editor
A scenic drive in the Canadian Rockies from Lake Louise to Jasper will never leave you wondering “Are we there yet?”
You’re there. You can’t help but be.
The glacier-carved valleys and peaks between Lake Louise and Jasper offer gorgeous lakes, majestic peaks, glaciers, and one of the world’s largest [...]
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