Embark on a breathtaking journey through the Canadian Rockies, exploring stunning landscapes and enjoying luxurious accommodations and rail experiences.
  • content:<h3>Choice Highlights</h3><ul class='icon-list'><li><i class='fa-regular fa-circle-check'></i>Banff: Learn about the history, highlights and stories that took place around the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel.</li><li><i class='fa-regular fa-circle-check'></i>Banff: Discover the history and culture of the Rocky Mountains of Canada at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. With the mission of cultivating the exchange of knowledge, the museum engages you with the evolving history, peoples, cultures, environment and ideas of mountain cultures. Museum founders Peter Whyte and Catharine Robb Whyte were local artists and philanthropists who wanted to create a place where people could gather and appreciate the culture and beauty of the area.</li></ul>
  • content:<h3>Top Rated Highlights</h3><ul class='icon-list'><li><i class='fa-regular fa-circle-check'></i>Icefields Parkway: Journey one of the world’s most scenic mountain roads, where each curve reveals glacier-fed lakes, ancient icefields and soaring peaks. Witness the Columbia Icefield, a rare hydrological apex feeding three oceans, and travel through landscapes sculpted by time and ice.</li><li><i class='fa-regular fa-circle-check'></i>Maligne Lake: Relax on board a narrated cruise on the serene waters of Maligne Lake. Glide past jagged mountain peaks to Spirit Island, a world-famous destination accessible only by boat.</li><li><i class='fa-regular fa-circle-check'></i>Maligne Canyon: Join your Travel Director as you walk on the trails of Maligne Canyon, one of the most stunning gorges in the Canadian Rockies and the deepest canyon in Jasper National Park.</li><li><i class='fa-regular fa-circle-check'></i>Athabasca Glacier: With the opportunity to get up close to nature's breathtaking power, Athabasca Falls is an experience not to be missed. Here, the Athabasca River crashes through a narrow gorge with immense force, its thundering waters and dramatic drop offering incredible photo opportunities to capture the raw beauty of the Canadian Rockies.</li><li><i class='fa-regular fa-circle-check'></i>Icefields Parkway: Journey one of the world’s most scenic mountain roads, where each curve reveals glacier-fed lakes, ancient icefields and soaring peaks. Witness the Columbia Icefield, a rare hydrological apex feeding three oceans, and travel through landscapes sculpted by time and ice.</li><li><i class='fa-regular fa-circle-check'></i>Banff: Visit Yoho National Park to see the Lower Spiral Tunnels—an early 20th-century engineering solution to a dangerously steep railway grade. Then view Takakkaw Falls, plunging 373 m (1,224 ft) in one of Canada’s highest cascades. The name, from Cree, means “it is magnificent”—an apt description for this thundering spectacle set amid glacier-fed peaks.</li><li><i class='fa-regular fa-circle-check'></i>Moraine Lake: Enjoy a beautiful stop at glacier-fed Moraine Lake, a vibrant turquoise lake set in the rugged Valley of the Ten Peaks.</li></ul>
  • content:<h3>Make Travel Matter</h3><p><b>Banff</b>: Walk through boreal forest with an Indigenous Local Expert and learn how local plants have been used for healing, food and survival for millennia. Hear stories of traditional ecological knowledge and discover how wildlife, like bears, were connected to plant medicine. Take part in a tobacco smudging ceremony, a sacred ritual of purification and respect. As the fragrant smoke curls through the air, learn how tobacco is offered to the land and ancestors as a sign of gratitude. Your experience advances United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 5 & 11: Gender Equality & Sustainable Cities and Communities.</p>
  • content:<h3>Authentic Dining</h3><p><b>Kananaskis</b>: Enjoy a flavourful dinner at the Kananaskis Mountain Lodge.</p><p><b>Icefields Parkway</b>: At Altitude Restaurant, dine on locally sourced, fresh ingredients while overlooking the Columbia Icefield, one of the world’s largest accumulations of ice south of the Arctic. As you sip on your drink, enjoy one of the most spectacular dinner views you'll ever see. Framed by six mountain ranges, this high-altitude setting offers a rare view of ancient glaciers, where ice up to 365 m (1,197 ft) thick continues to shape the dramatic Rocky Mountain landscape.</p><p><b>Banff</b>: Celebrate your travels with your newfound friends at the historic and regal Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel.</p>
  • content:<h3>Insight Choice</h3><p><b>Banff</b>: Learn about the history, highlights and stories that took place around the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel.</p><p><b>Banff</b>: Discover the history and culture of the Rocky Mountains of Canada at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. With the mission of cultivating the exchange of knowledge, the museum engages you with the evolving history, peoples, cultures, environment and ideas of mountain cultures. Museum founders Peter Whyte and Catharine Robb Whyte were local artists and philanthropists who wanted to create a place where people could gather and appreciate the culture and beauty of the area.</p>
Experience comfort and luxury at the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge, Forest Park in Jasper National Park, Glacier View Lodge, and the historic Fairmont Banff Springs. Enjoy a unique overnight stay assigned by Rocky Mountaineer in Kamloops, ensuring a memorable and diverse accommodation experience throughout your journey.