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you play where the course is constantly being tweaked by a talented, well-regarded design expert? Combine the spectacular scenery and summer daylight as late as 11:00 p.m. and golfers can play to their heart’s delight and still have time for family and the region’s many other activities. These include helicopter tours, hiking, fishing, rafting, gourmet restaurants, indoor and outdoor pools, horseback riding, and many children’s programs. This area – host to the 1988 Olympic Games in Alberta – has long been known to avid travelers and wintersport aficionados for its awe-inspiring terrain and jaw-dropping scenery. Winter activities run the gamut from skiing, ice climbing, dog-sledding, snowshoeing, ice fishing, horse-drawn carriage rides, hockey, iceskating and much more.
For icing on the cake all of the properties are close to one another – from 5 to 45 minutes – except The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge. It’s a three-hour drive from The Fairmont Banff Springs, but such a description would be decried by many. Traversed along the Icefields Parkway, many consider this mindblowing drive among the world’s most scintillating, thanks to the panoramic, otherworldly natural environs, which include glaciers, pine forests blanketing craggy slopes, and ever present snow-capped peaks which can rise as high as 12,000 feet from the roughly milehigh base on which most of the area sits. G To view the stunning topography, vacation options and learn more about the area visit www. canadianrockiesgolf.ca.
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