Here Are Pictures That Prove The Canadian Rockies Rock

The Canadian Rockies is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that comprises of provincial and national parks from Alberta to British Columbia Banff. The Icefields Highway, connecting Jasper to Banff, is one of the most scenic drives in the world. Here are pictures that prove the Canadian Rockies Rock!

Moraine Lake at Dawn

Moraine Lake

Who hasn't seen this idealized view? It's aptly called the twenty-dollar view because the mountains from behind the lake were featured on the reverse side of the Canadian twenty-dollar bill issued in 1969 and 1979. The lake reflects a distinct blue color due to it being glacially fed; The distinct shade of blue is caused by the refraction of light off the rock flour deposited at the bottom of the lake.

Athabasca Falls Rainbow

Athabasca Falls is just west of the Icefields Parkway in Jasper National Park on the upper Athabasca River. It is a powerful and very picturesque waterfall. Athabasca Falls isn't particularly high, but the sheer volume of water it drops is beyond comprehension.

Bow River in the Fall

Aspens in Fall

Fall colors line every view of the Trans-Canada highway.

Trans-Canada Highway

Trans-Canadian Railroad

A Flooded Meadow off the Trans-Canada Highway

Here's an interesting fact: The Trans-Canada Highway is the longest highway in the world and for most of its length there is alternative highways parallel that are also considered the Trans-Canada.

Emerald Lake

Emerald Lake Contrast

Wildlife galore

Emerald lake in Yoho National Park is your quintessential Rockies scenery. You can hike around the lake and it combines a circuit of a green glacial lake surrounded by mountains. It's less popular than its nearby neighbor, Lake Louise in Banff, but is equally beautiful.

Young Elk

Goat Smile

You are never far away from wildlife in the Canadian Rockies! You will meet bears, mountain goats, elks, and caribou. Just a drive around the Ice-Field Highway will procure plenty of wildlife photo opportunities.

20 Dollar View

Vermillion Lakes Sunset

Vermillion lakes is a series of three lakes that are formed in the Bow River valley, in Banff National Park, at the foot of Mount Norquay. They are easily accessible in the Trans-Canadian highway.

Maligne Lake Boathouse

Bow River

The Bow River

The Bow River's source is from the Bow Glacier, which belongs to the Wapta Icefield. The surge from this source streams into Bow Lake in the Canadian Rockies. It streams south to the town of Lake Louise then turns east and moves through the town of Banff then through Canmore. The Ghost Lake supply is shaped upstream from the town of Cochrane. The Bow then streams eastbound to the city of Calgary; it proceeds to shape the South Saskatchewan River when the Bow joins with the Oldman River close Grassy Lake in southern Alberta.

Peyto Lake

Are those colors real? Photoshop? Is Peyto Lake really is that blue? Yes! The lake gets its color from glacially deposited glacial rock flour. These suspended rock particles give Peyto its distinct bright, turquoise color.

Emerald Lake Lodge Bloom