Columbia Icefield & Athabasca Glacier

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Columbia Icefield & Athabasca Glacier

Banff · Canada

The Columbia Icefield is North America's largest non-polar icefield in the Canadian Rockies. The accessible Athabasca Glacier can be visited on guided Ice Explorer tours. The nearby Columbia Icefield Skywalk offers a glass-floored walkway 280 meters above the Sunwapta Valley. Together they form one of the most dramatic stops on the Icefields Parkway connecting Banff and Jasper national parks.

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Banff · Canada

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Lake Louise

Lake Louise is one of Canada's most celebrated natural landmarks, a jewel-like glacial lake in the heart of Banff National Park, Alberta, famous for its impossibly vivid turquoise color produced by glacial rock flour suspended in its waters. The Victoria Glacier fills the dramatic valley head above the lake, while the iconic Fairmont Château Lake Louise hotel overlooks the scene. In winter, the frozen lake transforms into a natural ice rink, and the surrounding terrain becomes a world-class backcountry skiing destination.

Banff · Canada

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