Banff, BC

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Situated amidst one of the most scenic mountain wildernesses in the world, Banff is the town with the highest elevation in Canada (1,463 m) and was the first municipality to be incorporated within a Canadian National Park.

Above Bow Falls, near the junction of the Bow and Spray Rivers, and surrounded by Mount Rundle, Sulphur Mountain, Mount Norquay, and Cascade Mountain, Banff offers excellent lodging, restaurants and extensive shopping.

Summer and winter, the list of things to do in the outdoors from your base in Banff is extraordinary. The famous ski resorts of Sunshine Village and Lake Louise are located in close proximity. There is golf, scenic alpine hiking, fly fishing, and exhilarating ice climbing; canoe trips on glacial lakes, photography and painting tours; ice skating, mineral baths, bear watching, and cable car rides. But perhaps nothing is more rewarding than simply gazing upwards, wondering at the forces that took an ancient seabed skyward and turned it to mountain peaks, or into the surreal green of a glacial lake.

Banff is located 126 km west of Calgary and 58 km east of Lake Louise, on the Trans-Canada Highway.