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Banff National Park is Canada's oldest national park, established in 1885 in the Rocky Mountains. It encompasses 6,641 sq.km of mountainous terrain, with numerous glaciers and ice fields, dense coniferous forest, and alpine landscapes. The main commercial centre of the park is the town of Banff, in the Bow River valley. In the fall of 1883, three Canadian Pacific Railway construction workers stumbled across a cave containing hot springs on the eastern slopes of Alberta's Rocky Mountains. From that humble beginning was born Banff National Park, Canada's first national park and the world's third. The Icefields Parkway extends from Lake Louise, connecting to Jasper National Park in the north. Provincial forests and Yoho National Park are neighbours to the west, while Kootenay National Park is located to the south and Kananaskis Country to the southeast.

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Banff is about an hour and half driving distance from Calgary

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Peyto Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Banff National Park is in the Rocky Mountain range, on the border between Alberta and British Columbia. Peyto Lake is a scenic location on the Icefields Parkway about 40 kilometers north of the town of Lake Louise. The lake is formed in a valley of the Waputik Range, between Caldron Peak, Peyto P...

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Portal Peak, descent from the Bow Hut, Wapta Icefields, Banff National Park,

The Wapta Icefields are comprised of a series of glaciers that run along the continental divide from Peyto Lake to the north and the Trans-Canada Highway to the south. The climbing is diverse ranging from full on ice and alpine climbs to ski summits. A chain of four Alpine Club of Canada huts mak...

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