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Wildlife is abundant, even right in the town The Jasper Park Lodge, one of Canada’s luxury excursion onto the surface of the Athabasca of Jasper. Where else will you find a herd of railway hotels, is a 700-acre, year-round Glacier, where passengers can safely step out elk grazing on the lawn? luxury mountain resort which wraps around onto the glacier and stand on this powerful the shores of Lac Beauvert and Canada’s ancient ice. The recently opened Glacial The Jasper SkyTram whisks you up Whistler’s number-one Resort Golf Course. The resort’s Skywalk over the Athabasca Glacier lets you Mountain to an elevation of 7,472 feet for stun- village of cedar chalets and luxury cabins, experience waterfalls, wildlife, fossils and ning vistas over mountain ranges stretching all connected by picturesque paths, offer more on an exciting cliff-edge walkway that up to 50 miles. Explore unlimited hiking and guests unique access to explore the natural leads to a platform where glass is all that back-country terrain in the high alpine country. environment surrounding the resort. separates you from a 918-foot drop.

Witness the towering waterfalls at Maligne A winding road leads to Patricia and Pyramid The fact that you can go about anywhere just Canyon. The whirling and tumultuous water lakes where fishing, picnicking, boating and with nature and forget about the rest – that’s has worn the canyon, only six feet wide in hiking are popular. Rental facilities include my favourite part. That feeling of being free some places, to a depth of more than 165 feet. horseback riding, boating, canoeing, wind- is awesome. surfing and sailing. Maligne Lake is famed for the colour of its water, the surrounding peaks, the three gla- The Icefields Parkway joins the two parks of ciers visible from the lake and Spirit Island, Jasper and Banff in one of the most breath- one of the most photographed locations in taking, beautiful drives that anyone can travel the world. in the world. A series of massive glaciers line the entire length of the Icefield Parkway, with Few summits in the park can match Mt. Edith the Columbia Icefield lying along the parkway Cavell’s craggy beauty. A small, powder-blue at the southern end of Jasper National Park. I go to nature to be soothed and healed, Angel Glacier is easily reached by a short, and to have my senses put in order. self-guiding trail that winds its way along the Massive ice explorers, specially designed for shores of the lake. glacial travel, take passengers on a remarkable —John Burroughs

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