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The origins of Canada’s first national park go back to 1883, when railway builders came across hot springs, soon protected as the Banff Hot Springs Reserve. The park would burble outward to its present size by 1902, encompassing cloud-veiled peaks, vast glaciers, raucous rivers, unbelievably blue-green lakes, and palatial hotels (railway-owned, of course). Today the park’s annual four million visitors arrive mainly via a road network that puts them in easy reach of hiking, biking, boating, skiing, and almost every other breed of Rocky Mountain recreation.
Photo: The Canadian Rockies surround Moraine Lake. Photograph © Buddy Mays/Corbis.
Things to See and Do
Suggestions from National Geographic Guidebooks
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