- The Lodge/Hotel is here...
View of Jasper Park Lodge from across Lac Beauvert
This is the lake on which the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge Hotel faces.
It is virtually impossible to take a bad picture here. Everywhere you look, you are surrounded by the sheer vastness and immensity of these mountains. The beauty and enormity of it all is just mind-boggling.
Oh, and a caution: if you happen to be out on a trail (as I was this day), beware of meandering wildlife, especially during calving season (see other photos in this series).
You can walk completely around the lake, but you do so at your own risk - this is wildlife country, and you are literally in the backyard of elk (wapiti), mountain goats, Bighorn sheep, and other assorted critters, big and small.
Jasper Park Lodge is a *VERY* expensive hotel (and somewhat isolated from the main townsite of Jasper itself), but you don't have to be a client of the hotel to just sit on the terrace, enjoy a vodka martini, or have a light lunch, and take in the magnificent vista before you. Visitors and guests sometimes just come for the view.
Indeed, no visit to Jasper would be complete without visiting the Jasper Park Lodge Hotel - it is one of the world's most stunning locations and vistas.
The Jasper townsite itself is a small, touristy town - not as crowded or commercialized as Banff (which is why I like it so much better). Accommodation in Jasper is likely to be expensive, although there are plenty of hotels and bed & breakfasts to choose from. During tourist season (July and August) places may often be fully booked, so it's a good idea to plan in advance.
The is a daily train that runs from Edmonton - Jasper (and Jasper does have a bus terminal as well). A brief walk along Jasper's main street, with the railway station on one side of the road, is recommended. Jasper is a pretty upbeat tourist town, and there are a number of restaurants, internet cafes, grocery stores, shops, galleries, laundrymats, clothing stores, etc - to make your stay all the more enjoyable!
I much prefer Jasper to Banff, anyday :-)
Jasper Park Lodge website:
www.fairmont.com/jasper/
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julieabrown1 (83 months ago | reply)
Wow, what a shot. My mom went to Banff in the 70's and it just seemed bigger than life in all the pictures she brought back.
eschneider (83 months ago | reply)
Ooh! Very nice!
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Studio E (83 months ago | reply)
Oh, App! This is so gorgeous! This may have to be a future vacation spot.
bulldog1 (83 months ago | reply)
Incredibly beautiful shot! Just wonderful and wow...what a place to visit. Should put this to the Group 1-2-3
The draft horses were at the Threshers Reunion in Rollag, Minnesota the first weekend in September 2004. It is south of Hawley, Mn and was five miles from where our country home was till we moved to town three years ago (nine mile move). Threshers Reunion is huge and takes you back in time. I wanted to visit again to see the horses but felt badly how much they had to walk around and in the sun all day. They gave them breaks but not enough in my mind. One did faint and about four minutes after I yelled out to let the horse rest.
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salma1 (82 months ago | reply)
What a view!!!!! Thanks for sharing the picture and information.
Freddie jr (81 months ago | reply)
beautiful shot
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gardnernewf (74 months ago | reply)
Great shot! What a beautiful place. I hope to make it there someday!
appaIoosa (74 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the visit Newf, et al..
:-)
~app
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--mitch-- (56 months ago | reply)
Please consider adding it to the Amazing Alberta collection along with any others you feel you would like to share with the group.
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