The only problem with this park is that it is so far to get too. Very beautiful but nothing really different from Banff National Park.. spend your time there and avoid the long drive to Jasper. The only thing worth seeing in Jasper is the Glacier which is at the southern tip of Jasper National Park. go there but go no further. However, the drive from Calgary to Edmonton through the National Parks is truely more spectacular than the one from Calgary to Deadmonton through Red Deer.

I visited Jasper back in college when two friends and I drove across country, up to Alaska and then back down through Canada. It was a great trip and Jasper was a great stop, beautiful area with tons of stuff to do. Of course when I was there I was just turning 19 and therefore legal to drink in Canada so we went out and bought a case of beer for the three of us and got sloshed at our campsite. I don't think we made a very good "American" impression that night. First off we couldn't even get our camp fire started and a little boy of about 5 had to come over from the next campsite over with a flaming log to help us out. We proceeded to repay his kindness by staying up until about 3 in the morning guzzling beer, being loud, vomitting (me, on one of my buddys pillow), and then stacking all the beer cans into a pyramid on our picnic table for his family to witness the next morning when they woke up to enjoy the crisp, clean outdoors. What can I say we were 19.