Jasper National Park Glacier

Step out on a cliff edge walkway where giant glaciers perch above you and the spectacular sunwapta valley spreads out below.

Jasper national park glacier. Its location is north of banff national park and west of edmonton. Lying on a wide elevated plateau it is the largest icefield in the canadian rockies. The columbia icefield skywalk experience features waterfalls wildlife fossils and more on an exciting 1 kilometre walkway that leads to a platform where glass is all that separates you from a 918 foot 280 m drop. Being from south texas you don t get to see or walk on glaciers very often.

It is the largest national park within alberta s rocky mountains spanning 11 000 km 2 4 200 sq mi. Jasper national park is a national park in alberta canada. The park contains the glaciers of the columbia icefield springs lakes waterfalls and mountains. 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.

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. Banff jasper and glacier offer outdoor experiences at their simplest and best.