The Icefields Parkway: 232 Kilometres Between Banff and Jasper
There are longer roads in Canada and there are wilder ones, but few pack as much into a single day as the Icefields Parkway. Highway 93 … Read more
Road Trips
Drives with the empty stretches marked: the Icefields Parkway, the Sea to Sky, Lake Superior and the Prairies.
Sea to Sky: Vancouver to Whistler and On to Pemberton
The name says it plainly. Highway 99 leaves the salt water of Howe Sound at sea level and, within 120 kilometres, delivers you to a ski … Read more
Lake Superior’s North Shore: The Trans-Canada from Sault Ste. Marie to Thunder Bay
Lake Superior is not really a lake. It behaves like an inland sea, with fog banks, six metre waves and a horizon with nothing on it, … Read more
The Prairies Slowly: Grasslands, Badlands and the Cypress Hills
Most people cross the Prairies as fast as the Trans-Canada allows, eyes on the Rockies, and that is the reason so few of them ever see … Read more