Kootenay National Park offers the same pristine landscapes with minimal tourist attention. Its thrashing turquoise rivers carve apart the vertiginous forest, its glacier-capped mountains loom over ...

and Kootenay to the south. West of Banff, it's about an hour's drive to Field, the town in the middle of Yoho National Park. If you're flying in, you can be grateful you don't have to visit ...