Banff National Park

When: Daily
Where: Banff

The resorts here offer ski touring, downhill skiing, snowshoeing, heli-skiing, outdoor skating, walking, wildlife viewing and other activities. Take a horse-drawn sleigh ride, fly across the snow in a dog sled, or just soak away your troubles at the famous Banff hot springs.

The park is home to three major resorts: Mount Norquay, Sunshine Village and Lake Louise. Between them they provide more than 7000 acres and 200 trails, offering skiers and snowboarders of any ability countless challenges. The park is studded with mountain peaks, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons and limestone caves. The campsites are mostly open from May to September.

Lake Louise is Canada's largest ski area, where visitors have the pick of over 100 runs and thousands of acres of wide open bowls. Some of the softest, lightest powder in the Rockies can be found at Sunshine Village and Norquay completed its first chair lift in 1948, making it the pioneer ski resort in the park.