Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

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29 July 2018, 08:23

4sixteen

Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Some photos taken earlier this week on a motorcycle tour through the park. Spectacular scenery.

Icefields Parkway

Athabasca Glacier, Columbia Icefields

Lac Beauvert

06 August 2018, 06:34

Crazyhorseconsulting

Lora and I went thru there in August of 2000, wished we would have had more time. Thanks for posting those pictures.

09 August 2018, 18:38

4sixteen

A world class destination, the glacial jewel of the Rockies. Photos taken earlier this week along Maligne Lake including the renowned scenic vista of Spirit Island. The views are currently being obscured by smoke from the wildfires raging in British Columbia.

12 August 2018, 21:41

Grizzly Adams

Beautiful, luckily not as developed as Banff yet, but they're working on that. Had to have a Grand Canyon style Skywalk at the Columbia Icefields.

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13 August 2018, 00:48

4sixteen

An advantage of being more remote. Jasper townsite is about 400 km from the major Alberta cities of Calgary and Edmonton. They had the foresight to limit access to the Glacier Skywalk by bus only from the Icefields Centre to mitigate environmental impact. Skywalk design and construction is a formidable engineering challenge.

22 August 2018, 03:30

lindy2

I don't remember exactly where in the park it was, but when I went through there a number of years ago I saw a lot of wild sheep down by the highway.

Did you see any sheep?

22 August 2018, 06:30

4sixteen

Jasper National Park is excellent for viewing wildlife. Bighorn Sheep and Elk are quite commonly seen. Bear sightings aren't uncommon either.

Here's a photo of Bighorn Sheep we saw on Highway 93A, and a video of Elk we saw in Jasper townsite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSFV9JTR9yA

03 March 2019, 17:02

Magine Enigam

I tent camped there two summers ago, in one campground. Then took some time to enjoy the scenery before heading west through Prince George and up the Cassiar Hwy.

I noticed lots of beetle killed trees.

I plan to make the trip again in June, and back again in Early September, but I'll probably try to stay overnight elsewhere. I don't yet know if I'll be tent camping or not.

Several years ago I tent camped in the park in September, and the elk made such a ruckus all night that I got little sleep.

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04 March 2019, 04:13

4sixteen

Along the Athabasca River including Athabasca Falls, late April last year.

18 August 2019, 09:55

4sixteen

Today - Cavell Lake and Mount Edith Cavell. In all its splendor.

Cow Elk grazing -

19 August 2019, 11:41

4sixteen

Today - Bull Elk, Athabasca River -

20 August 2019, 08:45

4sixteen

Today -

Talbot Lake

Talbot Lake Northern Pike

Pyramid Mountain & Lac Beauvert

11 January 2020, 01:23

Longwalker

Thanks for the nice photos. I drive through there about 4-6 times per year on the way to and from our bush camp. It's too easy to take such a privilege for granted. Love that part of our wonderful country.

20 July 2020, 05:34

Use Enough Gun

Taking a break today from all of the news and COVID nonsense and came across these! Beautiful!