Before I travel, I tend to remind myself that my perception of a place is rarely the reality—particularly in a destination like Canada's Banff National Park ... a frozen waterfall and skiing ...

Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, is full of iconic wonders ... Unlike some of the most swimmable waterfalls in the U.S., the waterfalls in Yoho are likely to be too cold for comfort ...

Alison Criscitiello, director of the Canadian Ice Core Lab at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, knows Banff National Park as both ... the side of a frozen waterfall above Lake Louise.

These dramatic 181 miles of Alberta—passing through and by Jasper, Kootenay, Yoho, and Banff National Parks plus ... walls of thundering Athabasca Falls, the rush of Sunwapta Falls, and the ...