This user-friendly map-guide includes a 1:250,00-scale poster-quality map of Canadas most popular national park, as well as useful and entertaining information about everything from mountain building to Banff Park wildlife. This full colour, two-sided map-guide, enclosed in a hard cover, makes it easy to find your way around the park and is a perfect souvenir at the end of your trip. The map covers Banff National Park as well as Yoho and Kootenay national parks. It shows roads, viewpoints, attractions, lodges and glaciers, gives the name and elevation of mountains. Contour lines at 200 metre intervals give map-users a good idea of the lay of the land. The map also shows official park trails, although it is not intended as a hiking map. On the back of the map are thirty photos accompanied by descriptions of the park's geology, history, wildlife, and ecoregions. Highlights of the park are also described, including sights and attractions in Banff townsite and area, Lake Louise, and along the Icefields Parkway.
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