Alberta Canada Travel Guide
Alberta is Canada at its best. For many people the beauty of the Canadian
Rockies , which rise with overwhelming majesty from the rippling prairies, is one of
the main reasons for coming to the country. Most visitors confine themselves to the four
contiguous national parks - Banff, Jasper, Yoho and Kootenay - enclaves that
straddle the southern portion of the range, a vast area whose boundaries spill over into
British Columbia. Two smaller parks, Glacier and Mount Revelstoke , lie
firmly in BC and not, technically, in the Rockies, but scenically and logistically they
form part of the same region. Managed with remarkable efficiency and integrity, all the
parks are easily accessible segments of a much wider wilderness of peaks and forests that
extend north from the Canada-US border, before merging into the ranges of the Yukon and
Alaska.
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