Posts in Tag: Canadian RVing
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Kootenay National Park – The Burgess Shale
This is the final post of four on a recent RV trip to four fabulous national parks in the fall. The first three were on Mount Revelstoke, Glacier and Yoho and frankly each one has surpassed its predecessor. However, that’s somewhat akin to claiming that Gretzky was better than Orr or Howe when in fact, they were all great. […]
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Yoho National Park – We Are Blown Away
Along with Glacier, Yoho is the second oldest of Canada’s wonderful national parks and on a recent visit with my two sons, grandson and later with Alison, I discovered why this must be rated as an absolute must visit park. While we barely scratched the surface of things to do in Yoho, what we did […]
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Glacier National Park, British Columbia, Canada
This is my second post on a recent visit to four of Canada’s lesser known national parks in the mountains of British Columbia. The first was on Mount Revelstoke National Park which you can read here. Glacier National Park – isn’t that in Montana? Yes and no. There is a Glacier National Park in Montana, […]
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Mount Revelstoke National Park, B.C.
This is the first of four posts on four fabulous national parks in British Columbia that are a great alternative to the congestion of Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper. On this 150th anniversary of Canada I wanted to make sure I got out to visit some places I haven’t been to since I was in […]
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Grasslands National Park – 10 Reasons To Visit
Grasslands National Park is one of the great modern achievements of Parks Canada. One usually thinks of a national park as a pristine environment that has been preserved for all time from the forces of exploitation and development and in most cases that is a correct assumption. Grasslands National Park is quite different. It is […]
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Saskatchewan Grain Elevators – Prairie Icons
This is my fourth post about a recent RV trip through Saskatchewan with my son Dale. The first three, Cypress Hills, Fort Walsh National Historic Site and the small town of Eastend all focused on things most people probably don’t expect to find in Saskatchewan. This post is about something everyone associates with the province, Saskatchewan grain […]
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Eastend Saskatchewan – Three Reasons to Visit
It’s day three of the 2016 RV trip, a ritual that my son Dale and I have been doing for six years. We are leaving our campsite in the Centre Block of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park heading for the west block of Grasslands National Park. It’s been a wonderful two days which I have described in […]
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Fort Walsh N.H.S.- Important to All Canadians
In my last post I described why Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park is a must visit for anyone interested in a totally unique ecological environment that will completely change your mind about Saskatchewan as a tourist destination. What I didn’t describe were the incredibly important historical events that took place here in the late 1800’s that […]
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Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park
I lived in northern Manitoba during my formative years and did a lot of travelling on the prairies, first with my family and in later years, on my own. I got to a lot of places, but one I repeatedly looked at on the map and never got to was the Cypress Hills of SE […]