The Ice Explorer tours depart from the Columbia Icefield Discovery Centre, about 65 miles south of downtown Jasper, where travelers can park for free. Tours of the Athabasca Glacier are available ...

brings us ice climbing, spelunking and on a road trip along the Icefields Parkway to see glaciers, frozen lakes and waterfalls. Alice heads to Canada to visit Banff and Jasper National Parks to ...

Ride massive ice explorer vehicles onto the otherworldly surface of the Athabasca Glacier. These dramatic 181 miles of Alberta—passing through and by Jasper, Kootenay, Yoho, and Banff National ...

This Alberta park—the largest in the Canadian Rockies—is wild in every sense of the word. Its residents include grizzly bears ...

Roughshod tectonic maneuvering was replaced with the glacier’s scalpel. Growing more than a mile thick at its peak about 14,000 years ago, the Cordilleran Ice Sheet sculpted the topography that ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: If you plan to drive the Icefields Parkway, consider purchasing a one-year Discovery Pass, which covers entry to every national park in Canada, including Jasper National ...

The route alone is bucket-list-worthy. The train departs from Vancouver and heads east toward the Canadian Rockies, a ...

The contiguous national parks of Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho ... Classic illustrations of glacial geological processes — including ice fields, remnant valley glaciers, canyons and exceptional ...

If you're looking for national parks to explore, make this town in Canada your home base. Here's what you should know about ...