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Museum & Galleries
1 - Banff Park Museum National Historic Site
Banff National Museum Historic Site was built in 1903 and also served as the park headquarters for many years. It houses more than 5,000 vintage ...
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Places of Worship
2 - St. George’s-in-the-Pines | Anglican Church
Step inside one of Banff’s oldest places of worship. Here, 11 Taylor Peal bells ring out the joy of Banff’s glorious nature every Sunday morning, ...
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3 - The Old Banff Cemetery
In 1890, baby Adelia Woodworth became one of the first registered burials in what today is known as The Old Banff Cemetery. A designated heritage ...
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4 - Banff Winter Carnival Ski Jump
On the slope above this rock is the cutline used by ski jumpers in the 1920s. Ski jumping and later “sliding” or downhill skiing was ...
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5 - Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, located on Treaty 7 territory, has been welcoming artists and leaders since 1933 to train, create, and advance their ...
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6 - Artist Henry George Glyde
A British-born painter and teacher, H.G. Glyde played a vital role in establishing Banff Centre’s visual arts programs, and he taught painting courses almost every ...
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Landmark & Views
7 - Sleeping Buffalo
Follow in the footsteps of over a century of visitors, residents, and royals who have hiked to the top of Tunnel Mountain for the spectacular ...
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8 - George VI and Queen Elizabeth Ascent Route
The first royal visit, to what is now Canada, was in 1776. However, the first visit by a reigning monarch, King George VI and Queen ...
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9 - Tunnel Mountain Summit
Welcome to the summit of Tunnel Mountain. Learn more about this place by reading the nearby interpretive panels. Did you know? When Queen Elizabeth reached ...
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Heritage & Monuments
10 - Louis Trono Gazebo
Band leader Louis Trono played for visitors and local residents for most of his 94 years. His fans ranged from local labourers to visiting dignitaries ...
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Museum & Galleries
11 - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies is named after Banff artist Peter Whyte who met his wife, Catharine Robb, at the Boston Museum School ...
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12 - Banff Bears
Banff Bears were officially protected from hunting from 1902 onwards however, feeding and other forms of interaction were frequently encouraged and in 1907, Banff opened ...
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14 - Echo Creek
Echo Creek empties Vermilion Lake into the Bow River. The creek winds through a forest of large spruce, past old beaver lodges and dams and ...
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15 - Jim Brewster
John Brewster’s Dairy was set up by the early pioneer who traveled to the mountain community of Banff in 1886 and it thrived thanks to ...
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17 - The Fenlands Banff Recreation Centre
The Fenlands Banff Recreation Centre is on the original dairy site of John Brewster but is now an ice hockey pitch. Hockey is very popular ...
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18 - Fenland Trail
Fenland Trail connects the forest, river edges and the open fens and marshes around the Vermilion Lakes. Thriving populations of beaver are thinning forests and ...
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19 - Vermilion Lakes Trail
Vermilion Lakes Trail connects the three lakes in the Bow River valley at the foot of Mount Norquay. It is likely that they were once ...
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20 - Vermilion Lakes
Vermilion LakesThere.The sun, rising steadily over the mountains we call home.There.The mist, ghosting across the lake, dancing with the crispness of the morning.There.The eerie mating ...
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Parks & Open Spaces
21 - Rocky Mountain Legacy Trail
Rocky Mountain Legacy Trail was created in 2010, to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Banff National Park and officially opened by Prince Edward. It links ...
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22 - Cascade Gardens
Cascade Gardens were made as a geological garden in 1930’s (in the manner of Joseph Paxton’s geological garden at the Crystal Park in London) to ...
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23 - National Park Head Quarters
National Park Administration Building was built in a domestic Tudor-Revival style using rubble limestone with cedar-shingled pitched roofs. This style was perceived as harmonious with ...
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24 - Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum
The Buffalo Nations Museum was created by Norman K. Luxton (1876-1962), an adventurous pioneer known as “Mr. Banff”. He strived to improve the community of ...
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25 - Warner Stables – Banff Trail Riders
Warner Stables and horses remind us that horses were the preferred mode of transportation for hundreds of years in the Canadian Rockies. The Stoney Nakoda ...
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26 - Cave and Basin National Historic Site
Cave and Basin is the lowest component of nine sulphurous hot springs clustered in three groups on the northeast flank of Sulphur Mountain. The water ...
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Landmark & Views
27 - The healing pools
The healing pools in Canada’s national parks have long served as places to re-energize. During and after the First World War Canadian soldiers came here ...
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Parks & Open Spaces
28 - Sundance Trail
Sundance Trail is a fully accessible link to the deep canyon. The Sun Dance is a sacred ceremony for Indigenous peoples who have lived in ...
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29 - Skoki Lodge view
Skoki Lodge is where The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stayed in 2011 with the Skoki Mountain visible from here.“We have been hugely struck by ...
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30 - Sundance Canyon
Sundance Canyon has eroded down a soft layer of rock. Large boulders have been toppled into the stream by undercutting the action of the water ...
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31 - Royal Canadian Legion Branch 26
Royal Canadian Legion Colonel Moore Branch was first built in it’s current location in 1923, after previously having a club-room on the second floor of ...
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32 - Banff Pedestrian Bridge
The Pedestrian Bridge was completed in 2013. Before that, for 116 years, there was just one crossing over the Bow River, first for horse and ...
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Parks & Open Spaces
33 - Fish Hatchery
Fish Hatchery operated here between 1913-1956. Since 1915, nearly 40 million non-native fish and eggs were released in Banff National Park’s watersheds by Park managers ...
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34 - Bow Falls
Bow Falls, prior to the creation of Banff National Park, would once have beed filled with timber berths. The Eau Claire and Bow River Lumber ...
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35 - Waldhaus Restaurant & Pub
Waldhaus Club House is now a restaurant but in 1928 was the start of the golf course designed by Canadian born Stanley Thompson. Stanley was ...
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36 - Banff Springs Hotel
Banff Springs Hotel was designed by American architect Bruce Price in Scottish baronial style and opened to the public on 1 June 1888. It was ...
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37 - Trans Canadian Trail
Trans Canadian Trail connects to the Walkway here and provides a link to all 10 provinces and three territories. It is over 24,000 km long, ...
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38 - Banff Upper Hot Springs
Banff Upper Hot Springs at 1,585 meters (5,200 feet), make them the highest in Canada. Indigenous people used the hot springs traditionally; these were their ...
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