Icefields Parkway

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Icefields Parkway Description

Icefields Parkway

Provinces: Alberta/British Columbia

Length: 230 km (143 mi.)

Driving time: at least 4 hours

Icefields Parkway (Highway 93) crosses the northern part of Banff National Park and southern part of Jasper National Park, and forms a link between TransCanada Highway 1 and Yellowhead Highway 16. Unlike the busy TransCanada Highway, the Icefields Parkway is purely and simply a sightseeing route through magnificent high mountain scenery.

Between Lake Louise and Jasper the road follows a narrow valley running north-south for 230 km (143 mi.) between the glaciated peaks of the main range of the Rocky Mountains. Originally built as a project to create work during the Depression, the highway was

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Hobbies & Activities category: Scenic site or route