Much of Canada's brilliant landscape can conveniently be found in the confines of its incredible national parks ... try schussing down the Canadian Rockies at a ski resort or relieve sore muscles ...

From the cosmopolitan streets of Toronto to the snow-capped peaks of the Canadian Rockies ... or hiking in Banff National Park (one of Canada's most beautiful national parks and home of glacier ...

This story appears in the June 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It is natural that modern visitors to this most sublime and overlooked of the Canadian Rockies parks would focus on the ...