What to do in Sunwapta Falls

Activities, attractions and tours

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Places to Visit in Sunwapta Falls

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Top places to visit

1. Jasper National Park

The small town of Jasper makes an ideal base for exploring Jasper National Park, and the Canadian Rockies beyond. Check into one of the ample hotels or wood lodges, or try camping in summer. There’s loads of information on offer and great food available in town.
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Set up base in this peaceful Rockies town before setting out to see glistening glaciers, cascading waterfalls and awe-inspiring mountains.

2. Icefields Parkway

Snow-dusted peaks, ancient glaciers, dramatic waterfalls, lush green gorges: Icefields Parkway (aka Highway 93) is a quintessential rural Canada experience. The 232-kilometre stretch of road may be comparatively short to other epic road trips, but you'll find yourself constantly making pit stops in order to admire the sublime scenery. Put aside a few days to do this properly. Otherwise, make it your complete Canadian Rockies trip. Plenty of accommodation options line the route.
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Forget Route 66 – for North America's most epic road trip, it's impossible to beat the scenery that whizzes by you on this drive.

3. Maligne Lake

Maligne Lake is the poster pin-up of the Canadian Rockies. Measuring a staggering 22.5 kilometres long, and reaching depths of 97 metres, this is a monster of lake. But the size of Maligne Lake is outshone by its beauty. Embark on trails that wrap around the waters, go fishing in its icy-blue surface, but make sure you set aside sufficient time to make the most of everything. You can stay for days and not tire of it.
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Maligne Lake featuring mountains, forests and landscape views

4. Sunwapta Falls

Sunwapta Falls originates from the Athabasca Glacier at Columbia Icefield. The falls were formed around 8,000 years ago by receding glacier ice. There is an upper and a lower falls, the first forming a drop of 18 metres, the second of nine metres. The bigger of the falls is the most popular and accessible, although the other is well worth seeing.
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See one of the Canadian Rockies' most dramatic waterfalls, and meet the world's only 'Holo-bear'.

5. Athabasca Falls

Athabasca Falls is not the largest waterfall in the Canadian Rockies. In fact, it measures just 23 metres from top to bottom. Yet it is a force of nature – a foaming cascade of water creating a deafening din to match. Come here to witness the sheer power of Mother Nature.
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Athabasca Falls featuring a cascade, mountains and landscape views

6. Mount Edith Cavell

Mount Edith Cavell welcomes walkers and climbers of all types and abilities. Whether you want to take a brisk walk, embark on a life-affirming ascent or something in between, it’s all possible here.
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Mount Edith Cavell showing landscape views, mountains and hiking or walking

7. Medicine Lake

Medicine Lake is no ordinary body of water. Depending on when you visit, it may be swollen, or might have vanished altogether. A sense of magic and mystery inhabits this area of the Canadian Rockies. In fact, the Native Indians who once lived here thought Medicine Lake was a supernatural force, which is where its strange moniker is derived from.
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Medicine Lake showing mountains, a lake or waterhole and a sunset

Recommended things to do in Sunwapta Falls

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Sunwapta River Self-Drive Rafting Trip: NZ$161
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What to do in Sunwapta Falls

 

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Day trip destinations from Sunwapta Falls

Jasper

Jasper