Day 1: Calgary to Banff

• Fly into Calgary (Arrive 10:30am)
• Pick up rental car
• Drive to Banff (1 hour 24 min [78mi])
• Check in to hotel
• Buy Park Pass.
• Inquire about discount tickets (ice field explorer adventure, banff gondola, banff minnewanka cruise)
• Photo Op: Bow Falls
• Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
• Banff Gondola Cost: Adults $39.95 go
• Go for a dip in the Banff Upper Hot springs (9am-11pm) $7.30 per adult
• Cave and Basin National Historic Site (10am-5pm)
• Visit the Whyte Museum
• Sunset drive along Vermillon lakes

Day 2: Banff

• Breakfast brunch – Banff springs hotel (11am – 2pm Bow Valley Grill Reservations)
• Drive along the shores of Lake Minnewanka and Two Jack Lake
• Take Cruise of Lake Minnewanka (1 hr) $54.95
• Drive to and hike Johnston Canyon (30 min from banff) (1.7 mi) go
• Castle Mountain kodak viewpoint (8 min from johnston)
• Lake Louise (21 min)
• Visit Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise

Day 3: Icefields Parkway to Jasper

• Drive up the Icefields Parkway
• Photo Op: Stop at Hector Lake
• Stop at Crowfoot Glacier
• Photo Op: Bow Lake
• View of Peyto Lake from Bow Summit
• Photo Op: Waterfowl Lakes
• Photo Op: Mistaya Canyon
• Photo Op: Saskatchewan Crossing
• Photo Op: Weeping Wall
• Photo Op: Bridal Veil Falls
• Ice Explorer – Columbia Icefields Athabasca Glacier
• Photo Op: Tangle Falls
• Photo Op: Quartzite Boulder Field
• Photo Op: Sunwapta Falls
• Look for mountain goats at Kerkeslin Goat Lick
• Photo Op: Athabasca Falls
• Photo Op: Horseshoe Lake
• Check into hotel in Jasper

Day 4: Jasper

• Drive up to Maligne Lake (past Medicine lake)
• Photo Ops: Medicine Lake, Patricia Lake
• Take Maligne Lake boat cruise (photograph Spirit Island)
• Hike Maligne Canyon go
• Drive to Edith Cavell (93a) and Hike Path of the Glacier go

Day 5: Icefields Parkway to Yoho NP

• Athabasca Falls
• Sunwapta Falls
• Hike Wilcox Pass to the meadows go
• drive to Yoho NP go
• Spiral Tunnel Viewpoint
• Natural Bridge
• Emerald Lake
• Takakkaw Falls go
• Check into hotel in Lake Louise

Day 6: Lake Louise

• Explore Morrainne Lake (early morning or after 4pm) – rent canoe
• Drive to Lake Louise
• check into hotel – 1 night (Paradise Lodge & Bungalows)
• Visit Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise: events
• Hike around Lake Louise (hike to agnes lake and tea house?)
• Louise Lake Gondola
• Dinner at the Outpost (Post Hotel)

Day 7: Banff to Calgary

• Lake Ohara Full Day (reserve shuttle bus)
• Calgary Tower
• Stephen Ave Walk (shop and dine)
• Glenbow Museum
• Fort Calgary
• Prince’s Island Park
• Stroll along Bow River Pathway
• Heritage Park (3 hours)

Notes: Maps