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Skoki Lodge

October 15, 2014

Get away from it all and stay in an alpine backcountry lodge. Skoki Lodge, elevation 7,100 feet, is only accessible by hiking or skiing an 11km trail through beautiful Banff National Park. Choose from accommodations in the main lodge or one of the three log cabins. Note that there is no electricity or running water, though […]

Banff National Park

August 1, 2012

Canada’s oldest National Park. Interestingly, it all started by accident. As the story goes… in the fall of 1883, three Canadian Pacific Railway workers stumbled across a cave containing hot springs on the slopes of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, not far from the Banff railway station (named after a town in Scotland). From that beginning, the […]