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Message: <blockquote data-quote="snaphappy" data-source="post: 211384" data-attributes="member: 12198">Don this a national park you pay a daily fee of $19 a vehicle and you are free to explore all 1,087,800+hectares as well as the 664,100+ hectares of Banff National park.  There is no firearms of any kind allowed in the park at any time, they give you safety handouts about the animals and Gawd help you if you leave food stuff in campsite or try to feed the animals!  Also speeding in the park is going hurt your wallet cause they do not mess around!  The only thing we paid for was to go up on the Tram to the mountain top and swim in the hot springs.  Everything else is self guided and paid for with the daily park fees.  There are beautiful hotels and many stunning cabins available to stay in but hubby and I stayed in our 18ft trailer with 3 kids and 3 large dogs LOL  I could spend a month and still barely see the stuff available to see and do in the park.  We only had 2 full days because we spent our other 2 days travelling to get there.  We live about 5hrs north west of the park.  Hubby has driven through Banff when he worked in alberta and I was in Jasper in 1986 but I barely remember anything since I was 8 and we just drove through <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />  We went at the end of the summer season so it was pretty quiet but even then there was still LOTS of people and getting photos with out people took ALOT of patience!  There is skiing etc so there is also a winter season and the photos I saw of the frozen canyons and waterfalls are fantastic.  No street lights or power lines sure is nice too <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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