#1 of 10 Things To Do in Banff
Banff Park Museum
Banff AB
~0.25 miles from Banff city center
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#2 of 10 Things To Do in Banff
Whyte Museum
Banff AB
~0.29 miles from Banff city center
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The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies is located in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The museum collects, preserves, exhibits, and makes available for research and education materials related to the cultural heritage of the Rocky Mountains of Canada and other mountains around the world. The museum, which contains an archive and library, was the inspiration of Banff artists Peter and Catharine Whyte. The Alpine Club of Canada has dedicated the Peter and Catharine Whyte Hut on the Peyto Glacier after the duo.
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#3 of 10 Things To Do in Banff
Canada House Gallery
Banff AB
~0.29 miles from Banff city center
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A Banff destination since 1974, just a short drive from Calgary. This friendly and fresh gallery represents a large collection of current Canadian art -- paintings and sculpture from Canada's best landscape, contemporary and Native artists. Check website for daily updates. Member of Art Dealers Association of Canada. Open daily.
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#4 of 10 Things To Do in Banff
Banff Lake Louise Tourism Bureau
Banff AB
~0.31 miles from Banff city center
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#5 of 10 Things To Do in Banff
Banff National Park Information Centre
Banff AB
~0.31 miles from Banff city center
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#6 of 10 Things To Do in Banff
Banff Centre
Banff AB
~0.35 miles from Banff city center
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#7 of 10 Things To Do in Banff
Upper Hot Springs
Banff National Park AB
~1.81 miles from Banff city center
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These mountainside, steaming sulfur pools are a soothing tradition for locals and visitors as they soak away their skiing and hiking aches and pains. Especially inviting in winter and on cold rainy days, the pools are open year round. You can rent lockers, bathing suits and towels if you are unprepared; there are even spa services. The pools are two miles south of downtown Banff.
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#8 of 10 Things To Do in Banff
Sulfur Mountain Gondola
Banff National Park AB
~1.86 miles from Banff city center
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Sulphur Mountain is a mountain in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains overlooking the town of Banff, Alberta, Canada.
The mountain was named in 1916 for the hot springs on its lower slopes. George Dawson had referred to this landform as Terrace Mountain on his 1886 map of the area. Sanson's Peak was named in 1948 for Norman Bethune Sanson who diligently attended the observatory recording equipment atop Sulphur Mountain for nearly 30 years.
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#9 of 10 Things To Do in Banff
Sunshine Village
Banff National Park AB
~9.39 miles from Banff city center
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Sunshine Village is a major North American ski resort, located within the protected wilderness of Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
Known for good quality snow (the light dry Rocky Mountain "Champagne Powder"), Sunshine Ski and Snowboard Resort spans the Great Divide which defines the Alberta-British Columbia border in the Canadian Rockies.
The Sunshine base area is located approximately 11 miles (18 km) SW of the town of Banff, Alberta; and an easy fifteen minute drive from the town. It is about one hour and thirty minutes away from the city of Calgary. The Sunshine exit on the Trans Canada Highway is just 8 km (5.0 mi) west of Banff townsite.
Sunshine Village ski runs and lifts are accessed via its eight person high speed gondola. The modern gondola whisks guests from the car park (or bus terminal) to Goat's Eye mountain in ten minutes and to the upper Village area in eighteen minutes. From there, ten chairlifts and 107 trails spread out in a wide arc around the high alpine valley formed by the three mountains (Mount Standish, Lookout Mountain, and Goat's Eye Mountain) that constitute Sunshine Village.
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#10 of 10 Things To Do in Banff
Centennial Park
Canmore AB
~10.93 miles from Banff city center
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