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The Icefields Parkway Passes Within Viewing Distance of Seven Icefields (Large Upland Glaciers) and About 25 Smaller but Still Notable Glaciers

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The Icefields Parkway Passes Within Viewing Distance of Seven Icefields (Large Upland Glaciers) and About 25 Smaller but Still Notable Glaciers Jasper and Banff National Parks parkscanada.gc.ca Glaciers...The Cold Facts Well-named, the Icefields Parkway passes within viewing distance of seven icefields (large upland glaciers) and about 25 smaller but still notable glaciers. The centrepiece is the Columbia Icefield, largest in the Rocky Mountains with an area of about 200 km2. Aboriginal peoples may have viewed the Columbia Icefield centuries before The Icefields Europeans came to the area but the first recorded view was awarded to mountaineers Norman Collie and Hermann Woolley. On their ascent of Mount Parkway Athabasca in 1898, Collie wrote... A new world was spread out at our feet: to the westward stretched a vast icefield... bending over in those unknown valleys Bear! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A Snapshot Of Mountain Life Rockies? Yes, in that scarce The Most Beautiful Road? Really? glowing with the evening light... That's what many seasoned travellers have told Grizzlies, black bears, coyotes, wolves, elk, The Icefields Parkway climbs from the low valleys montane habitat. These days, we nearly to treeline, so you'll get a good look at all three must be extra-careful in how we us, and they're right. How many highways can claim Glaciers form from layers of snow that remain after each summer's melt. The delicate snowflakes gradually deer, mountain goats, bighorn sheep...you are life zones in the Canadian Rockies: the meadowy, share it with the other living things 230 kilometres of continuous World Heritage Site change to hard, interlocking ice crystals. Some glacial ice in the Rockies is hundreds, possibly thousands, travelling right through their habitat so there's a piney montane valley floor around Jasper, elevation that depend on it for survival. scenery completely protected in two national parks? of years old. Beneath the crushing weight of good chance of seeing these animals from the 1000-1500m; the thick spruce and fir forests of its surface layers, a glacier becomes elastic parkway. This means it's important to drive very the subalpine zone, elevation 1500-2200m, and Winter Safety Every year, over a million park visitors enjoy the trip and flows slowly downhill like a river of taffy. carefully: scan for animals at roadside; be extra the treeless alpine zone above 2200m, which Top up your tank before driving between Lake Louise and Jasper. They cover the The Athabasca Glacier moves forward 15-20m cautious at sunrise and sunset, when animals the parkway almost reaches at Bow Summit and the parkway in winter. From distance in every conveyance imaginable: cars, per year in the lower part but much faster, are most active and respect the park's slower Sunwapta Pass. mid - November until mid - March trucks, RVs, buses, bicycles... the parkway has up to 127m per year, in the upper part where it speed limits (70-90 km/h). there is no fuel available between been toured by roller blade and unicycle. tumbles down from the Columbia Icefield like a If you come across a traffic jam caused by roadside Jasper and Lake Louise and waterfall of ice. At the lower end of a glacier, the Here's how you can tell when you're passing from wildlife, please slow down and be alert to traffic in traffic is light. Proper tires are From the beginning the parkway has been intended ice melts back while the glacier moves forward. montane elevations up to subalpine elevations and front of and behind you. Never stop in the middle important. Bring warm clothing to commemorate Canada's powerful natural During hot, dry summers the rate of melting back. Watch for aspens: whitebarked trees with of the road and pull over onto the shoulder only if in case of breakdown and check landscape. It's a scenic drive, not a transportation increases and the glacier melts back faster small leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze. it is safe to do so. the road reports before you leave; corridor. That's why you need a park pass to than the forward ice flow, so the toe retreats. Aspens are common at montane elevations but snowslides can cause closures. drive the parkway. Large trucks are banned. The In a period of cool, cloudy summers, the rate they don't grow higher up, in the subalpine forest. Keep the Wild in Wildlife! There is no patrol or maintenance speed limit is leisurely. The pulloffs and picnic of melting decreases and the toe gains ground. When animals get used to humans, they lose their Few park visitors realize how much of the Canadian after 4:30 pm in the winter. areas are many. Enjoy your trip through Banff and The glacier advances. wildness. Too many people harass park animals Rockies is at or above the treeline: about half. Life Jasper national parks. The inspiring surroundings unintentionally by getting too close and pursuing is harsh up there on the tundra, where the wind In case of emergency, call 911 make this the perfect place to tune in to nature, them for photos. Please keep your distance. How seldom stops and snow can fall in mid-summer. from any public phone (see appreciate it, respect it and pledge to protect it. close is too close? Stay back at least 30 metres Yet for many mountain animals the alpine zone is map for phone locations along Road Builders (the length of three buses) from most animals and home. You may see marmots in the meadows, the route). In 1931, the government of Canada gravel track from Lake Louise stay in your vehicle if you see a bear. National pikas in the boulderfields and ptarmigans almost Those Who Went Before put hundreds of unemployed men to to Jasper. The "B-J" ("Banff- parks are here to protect wildlife, not to stress Place names along the route recall travellers of anywhere that's high and wild. If many visitors work in building mountaineer A.O. Jasper") road opened quietly these magnificent residents. The best thing you earlier eras. Sunwapta is a Stoney word meaning underestimate the extent of the alpine life zone, Wheeler's "wonder trail" through the in 1940, while the country was can do for the animal? Take a quick look and "turbulent river" from the days when only aboriginal many more overestimate the extent of the montane heart of the Canadian Rockies. The at war. With the auto-tourist keep driving. peoples moved through these valleys. Athabasca men were paid twenty cents a day. boom of the 1950s and 1960s life zone. It represents only about 5-10 percent of means "the place where the bulrushes grow". the mountain parks. Yet these valley floors are Using picks, shovels and horses— came widening, paving and Never, ever feed wildlife. Human food isn't good Hardisty was a fur-trader; Hector was an explorer. critical habitat for elk, deer, bighorn sheep, wolves for mechanized equipment the crews realignment. The official name for them. But they'll hang out on the highway Stutfield was a mountaineer. Wilson and Peyto and other animals. Now where do you suppose had only a few small tractors—these is now "The Icefields Parkway." to get it, with predictably fatal results. Feeding were horse-party outfitters. hardy folks hacked a single-lane we have built our roads, railways and towns in the Parks Pares wildlife is unlawful in national parks. Canada Canada Canada the coolest summerattractjDn Travel onto the surface of the spectacular Athabasca Glacier on a specially designed Ice Explorer. Open mid-April to mid-October. Located on the Icefields Parkway-just 1 hour from Jasper and 2.5 hours from Banff. Columbia 0 icefield glacieradventure OQQ0 EXPLORE Book your ticket today! |-jrEW5ter ExploreRockies.com 11.877A23-7A33 travel Canada < s z Ore sg>- Icefields Parkway cr iv o i S U. 0. r£<5 3 1=5 sg2 Points of Interest 0 230 JASPER TOWNSITE ? fir 1 L * RCMP 2 228 A Whistlers (May to October) L 48. Jasper International -4 Jasper Tramway (April to November) 4 226 A Wapiti (Summer and Winter) L 6 224 Junction with Highway 93A Access to: Marmot Basin Ski Area, Mount Edith Cavell Road (mid June to mid October: viewpoints, hiking, 48, ft Tonquin Valley) and A Wabasso. Rejoins parkway at Athabasca Falls. 9 221 ft Valley of Five Lakes L 14 216 ft Wabasso Lake 25 205 fi- Whirlpool Valley, Mount Hardisty, Mount Kerkeslin and Mount Edith Cavell 27 203 ft Horseshoe Lake 30 200 Athabasca Falls fi- -Ft L Junction with Hwy 93A 32 198 48 Athabasca Falls L 34 196 A Mount Kerkeslin L 37 193 ft- Goats and Glaciers 38 192 ft- Mount Fryatt 41 189 f* Mount Christie 49 181 ft- Mount Christie 50 180 A Honeymoon Lake 52 178 ft Buck and Osprey Lakes L 54 176 Sunwapta Falls Junction L Sen/ices: fir (mid-May to mid-Oct) Road to Sunwapta Falls: 15 minute walk to lower falls 60 170 •Ft- Bubbling Springs L 72 158 ft Poboktan Creek * L 74 156 Jonas Creek Rockslide 77 153 A Jonas Creek L 84 146 ft Mushroom and Diadem Peaks 85 145 48 Beauty Creek v. 87 143 ft Beauty Creek 94 136 ft Stutfield Glacier 96 134 ft Tangle Falls. Watch for sheep! 97 133 ft Sunwapta Canyon, Mount Kitchener 103 127 ICEFIELD CENTRE (Apr 15 to Oct 15) Services: Parks Canada Information and Exhibits, Brewster Ice Explorer tours and guided icewalks ? fir I A<NV«IM 104 126 A Columbia Icefield v. 106 124 A Wilcox Creek L ft Wilcox Pass 108 122 Sunwapta Pass Boundary between Banff and Jasper national parks 111 119 48.
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