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