Day 16: Downtown Banff

We used today to explore downtown Banff.

Banff is a special purpose tourist city developed by the government to promote tourism to Banff National Park. Hotels and accommodation are quite expensive in the town hence the reason most tourist stay in Canmore which is 20mins drive away.

The only free parking in Banff is at the train station so we parked the rental car there and strolled to Banff Avenue which is the main street in town, lined with different shops and bordered on both sends of the street by beautiful snow capped mountains.

We walked around Banff, visited the cascade garden and took lots of pictures while also gathering information on attractions etcRead more