Jasper National Park Glacier

Jasper national park is a national park in alberta canada.

Jasper national park glacier.

It is the largest national park within alberta s rocky mountains spanning 11 000 km 2 4 200 sq mi. The park contains the glaciers of the columbia icefield springs lakes waterfalls and mountains. Lying on a wide elevated plateau it is the largest icefield in the canadian rockies. Its location is north of banff national park and west of edmonton.

Banff jasper glacier national parks welcome to banff jasper glacier national parks sit atop a mountain hike through the forest feel the spray of a waterfall. Step out on a cliff edge walkway where giant glaciers perch above you and the spectacular sunwapta valley spreads out below. Jasper national park columbia icefield area and the athabasca glacier the columbia icefield is a surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of western canada s mountains. We toured the athabasca glacier in jasper national park and thoroughly enjoyed our experience.

You may cover or discuss glaciers in school but never realize or understand their true significance until. Visiting athabasca glacier one of the jewels of jasper national park by scott shetler alberta canada jasper national park unesco world heritage site there s nothing quite like driving north on the icefields parkway through banff and jasper national parks and seeing the scenery start to change from green to white.