Hiking

If you are a seasoned hiker in good shape and crave some of the best scenery in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, you should add the Sarrail Ridge hike to your list of must-do Kananaskis hikes.

Rawson Lake is one of the best easy hikes in Kananaskis. Hikers going to Rawson Lake will enjoy being lakeside on not one, but two beautiful Kananaskis lakes, with a highly enjoyable, somewhat challenging, forest hike in-between.

We’ve been enjoying the C Level Cirque hike for many years. It’s one of our favourite hikes in the Minnewanka Loop of Banff National Park.

The Boom Lake hike in Banff National Park is a moderately long, but reasonably easy hike through a pleasant forest to a Banff lake surrounded by towering rock cliffs. To be honest, the Boom Lake hike is an underrated hike in Banff. The scenery to be earned by hiking up to Boom Lake is on …

The West Wind Pass is one of our favourite short Kananaskis hikes. A highly enjoyable hike up the side of a river valley to a mountain pass, the West Wind Pass trail packs in a ton of scenery for the effort.

Kananaskis Country has long been one of our favorite places to go for hiking. It’s a place where you can find hikes to satisfy all levels of fitness without having to look very hard. In this list of easy Kananaskis hikes you’ll find some of our favorites.

The Lake Agnes Tea House hike is one of the most popular of the short Lake Louise hikes in Banff National Park. An easy hike up a mountain slope on the north side of Lake Louise, hikers will be rewarded with stops at two stunning mountain lakes.

The first time we hiked Wasootch Ridge, a popular Kananaskis hike, we were blown away by the views. Being up on the ridge offers hikers panoramic views of the surrounding mountains and all the way down into the valley.

The Lake Minnewanka trail is one of the best things to do at Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park. Hiking along the Lake Minnewanka reservoir shoreline offers impressive views across the lake at mountain peaks and rocky shores. Lake Minnewanka is a popular place to visit in Banff in summer, but you can leave the …

If you are looking to experience some of the best scenery in Banff, try the Aylmer Lookout trail. A challenging hike up a river valley along the lower slopes of Mount Aylmer, the payoff is a viewpoint atop a rocky outcrop with outstanding views of Lake Minnewanka and her surrounding mountains.