Hiking Waterton National Park
Waterton National Park, Alberta
Crypt Lake Trail, Waterton Park
Distance: 17.2 km / 10.7 minutes (return)
Time: 6 – 8 hours (plan a full day)
Elevation Gain: 700 m / 2297′
Waterton National Park is proud home to some of the Rockies’ great treks. For an awe-inspiring full day hike, take a boat taxi across Waterton Lake [...]

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Banff and the Canadian National Parks
We won’t go on about the giant economic meltdown as the media is flooded enough with depressing news as it is. The truth is everybody needs a holiday and maybe now is the perfect time to stretch your dollar as much as you possibly can. Why not venture over the [...]

10 Incredible National Parks of Canada
Banff National Park, Alberta
This is the big boy of the National Parks and also Canada’s oldest national park. It all started with prospectors searching for gold. What they found, however, was better. A steaming, relaxing, life-giving hot spring at the centre of jagged snow-capped mountains, broad U-shaped valleys, turquoise [...]

The National Parks of Canada on a Budget
Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park, Quebec
In 1990, the difficult task began to establish the first park in Quebec dedicated to the protection of a marine environment. The park offers great vantage points for observing the many species of birds and marine animals.
Carved right out from a glacier, with [...]

The National Parks of Canada on a Budget
Prince Edward Island National Park, Prince Edward Island.
About: Only 139,818 people call Prince Edward Island home. There is so much beauty to this little place that it is almost beyond description. Beyond its endless green hills, old-fashioned churches, and mussel farms are the clean, sandy beaches, rust-red cliffs, [...]

The National Parks of Canada on a Budget
Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia
About: This is one of the parks that you really have to drive through to get a full idea of its beauty. Over 367-square-miles of Gods finest creations decorate this park, which stretches across the top of Cape Breton Island. Taking away [...]

Vacationing in Jasper
Jasper, Alberta

So, the office door is locked, the bills are put under a heavy book in your desk drawer, the dog is with the neighbours – you are about to go on vacation to the sensational little town of Jasper and you don’t know just where to start. Below is everything you [...]

Introduction to Jasper National Park
Jasper, Alberta
Jasper Townsite: 287km (178 miles) NW of Banff

Jasper has grown recently to become Canada’s largest mountain park. Less than 200 miles from its more well-known neighbour Banff, it was officially established in 1907. However, in the 1840’s, it already had a sort of guesthouse. An intrigued painter who visited [...]

Banff-Restaurants on a Budget
Banff, Alberta.
When at home, it is very easy to budget your food costs with a trip to the supermarket and an hour in the kitchen. However, on holidays and especially in Banff, the cost of eating can really make up a large part of your travelling budget. Budgeting does not mean that [...]